Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >Beware: Spraying WD40 on steel or aluminum surfaces *promotes* rust. > >WD40 is a water dispersal developed for the navy ... the name comes >from "water dispersal formulation #40". As such, it is hygroscopic: >it's designed to suck up water,
Urban legends. It was developed by the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company (and later sold to Convair) by a chemist named Norm Larsen. It is not hygroscopic and is actually quite good at preventing corrosion. http://www.wd40.com/AboutUs/our_history.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
