Re: Best penetrating oil


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Posted by David Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Monday, December 27, 2010 at 00:43:33 :

In Reply to: Best penetrating oil posted by Ed Bateman [75.140.24.232] on Monday, December 27, 2010 at 00:19:39 :

Good info, but I would like to know more about how the test was done. If they had a whole barrel of "scientifically rusted" nuts and bolts, tested each kind of oil on 100 of them and averaged the results, I'd say it was a pretty good test, but if they just tested one nut with each kind of oil, the test is probably not very good. There's no way to make a bunch of nut and bolts all equally rusty and there are just too many variables that could make the torque vary all over the place.

Still, it seems to roughly correspond to what we hear anecdotally -- that WD40 isn't really a penetrating oil, and the PB and Kroil are both pretty good. I haven't tried the acetone/ATF mix as I still have half a gallon of Kroil on hand, but I will probably try it at some point.



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