[LIB] Valvoline SynPower Penetrating Lubricant

[Matthew Hanson]

Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 02:28:08 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Valvoline SynPower Penetrating Lubricant

After an afternoon of searching stores, this is the only spray lubricant that touted itself having synthetic components, or as the label reads: 'Synthetic Polymers'. Could this be what you used david?

It does list petroleum products in its list on components. I had been avoiding everything containing petroleum based components, thinking as Neil put it about the lubricating the M820E:

"If it's nylon runners on polished metal slides, don't even begin to
let the idea of mineral oils begin to consider the possibility of
starting to think about crossing your mind!�

However Neil also added:

"Generally things like that <snip> require either silicon or teflon
based lubricants." Now all of the lubricants I found that being
touted silicon and teflon lubricants, also had petroleum additives
listed as components.

I didn�t find a single spray lubricant that didn�t have some kind of petroleum product listed as a component.


This Valvoline 'SynPower' is advertising itself as a 'penetrating' lubricant better than WD-40. Now I don't think I really want to put a penetrating oil of any sort on the metal rails of the HP's laser drive components, do I?

A guy at Pep Boys said he had a can of synthetic spray >grease< at home that he got when he worked at a German auto repair shop. It would seem the rails for the HP laser assembly would need a fairly fine lubricant, but how thick this 'grease' is, I don't know. And I've always understood that penetrating lubricants are made more for the purposes of dissolving than for actually lubricating.

Any thoughts?

Matt



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