Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:20:59 +0000
From: Ron Youvan <ka4inm@tampabay.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Amps] WD-40 Is Not....
> Hmmm, maybe I need a tank of liquid nitrogen hooked up to a modified
> pressure washer wand. We used to use that stuff all the time in the RF labs
> I used to work in.
My buddy, when he worked in the air conditioning field, use to squirt
warehouse roaches with
freon 12, the first drop froze them, flipped them on their back and turned them
all white in the
first second.
--
Ron KA4INM - I'm proud to be Chuck's pop!
## On a CBC radio documentary, back in the 80's... they had this fellow on
there from WD-40.
The story went they were trying to cook up something in a lab, for a specific
application, and failed.
The failed goop they had come up with, however, had other interesting
properties, like for loosening
rusted/seized bolts etc. Then came along the next 200 x uses. They named the
failed goop, 'WD-40'
and the rest is history. Apparently, it's nothing more than glorified
kerosene.
## The telco I worked for, stopped buying it, in the mid 80's, and instead
switched to this stuff
called LPS-1... and also LPS-2 and also LPS-3 The LPS-1 spray bomb is used
for fine machine
parts, screws, etc, The LPS-2 is thicker, and the LPS-3 is used for stuff
like lubricating chains, and is
really thick. LPS smells awful... like bad perfume. it also doesn't
evaporate in 20 mins.. like WD-40.
## for killing wasps nest below trailer's, and also telco box's in the field,
the I+R fellow's would grab
a big CO-2 fire extinguisher, and blast em with it.. all dead, instant freeze
dried. We once had a
contactor cut though an un-used , embedded conduit in the floor, with his
diamond bit core drilling
rig,, cutting a 6" diam core through re-enforced concrete, 8" thick. The
big [$1200] core bit
is water cooled. The water ran down the inside of the conduit [ not on any
1951 building plan],and
came out the other end.. in the basement, into the main 400A 3 -phase
208/120 v panel !
## The fix to get the water out, asap... blast the panel [ with covers
removed] with the
entire CO-2 extinguisher., including all 3 pole breakers, buss bars, the lot.
Worked good,
water gone.
later....... Jim VE7RF
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