# WD40 **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 21, 2010, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234 "2010-05-21T10:30:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/41 "2010-05-21T20:55:20Z")
> [@Jake](#): > > Why didn’t WD-39 work? It was basically just a potassium spray. Sure, it got rid of moisture, but… ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/42 "2010-05-21T20:57:22Z")
> [@](#): > > 1. Keeps pigeons off the balcony (they hate the smell). Because a pigeon-free, slippery balcony is a safe balcony ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/43 "2010-05-21T21:01:11Z")
> [@Wile\_E](#): > > No one likes a squeaky fish. So that’s why I never hear a noise when fish swim by. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/44 "2010-05-21T21:13:13Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > I think there actually is some industrial cleaner/solvent/lubricant that smells like bananas but I can’t remember what its called. For banana flavored scent [Tri-Flow](http://www.triflowlubricants.com/Superior_Drip/superior_drip.html) meets that description. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/45 "2010-05-21T21:13:35Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Spray it on whatever else you’re using as bait. Fishermen swear it works, but I’ve never tried it myself. Of course, fishermen drink a lot. I thought that shit was poisonous!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/46 "2010-05-21T21:34:49Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > Oh jeez, now the thread’s going to flounder in bad puns. > > Say flounder to yurself a few times and tell me it’s not a fantastic word. Flounder. Flownnder… Try it like Bullwinkle: “Fan mail from thum flounder?” ---
**Author:** ![emcee2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emcee2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emcee2k)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/47 "2010-05-21T22:11:56Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Actually, it is a paraffin distillate (white spirits or mineral oil)… I guessing you mean mineral spirits. ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2010, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/48 "2010-05-21T22:27:04Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > It comes in banana flavor? Yum! > I think there actually is some industrial cleaner/solvent/lubricant that smells like bananas but I can’t remember what its called. I’m not positive, but Goo-Gone might have a banana scent. As to the OP, powdered graphite is, in my opinion, best for locks. ---
**Author:** ![Ostrya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/35a633/32.png) [@Ostrya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ostrya)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/49 "2010-05-22T00:23:54Z")
Goo Gone is citrus-y. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/50 "2010-05-22T01:39:21Z")
> [@Marmite\_Lover](#): > > [removed list and text identical in its entirety to that linked to in the post #2] **Marmite Lover** – the expectation around here is that your posts be your own material, not glurge cut and pasted from elsewhere. Don’t do this again. **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2010, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/51 "2010-05-22T01:54:50Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > I like Tri-Flow, but honestly, for something you don’t intend to lube on a periodic basis and that is likely to trap dust and dirt, you shouldn’t use a liquid lubricant at all. Use graphite or another dry lube like Dry Slide, or a least a non-hygroscopic viscous coating like beeswax, which is well-suited to loose tolerance sliding parts like doors and drawer slides. > > Stranger I use endust on my aluminum sliding ladder but that’s aluminum against aluminum. If it’s a sliding door there should be a wheel involved. ---
**Author:** ![toofs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@toofs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toofs)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/52 "2010-05-23T04:20:37Z")
> [@PatriotGrrrl](#): > > It comes in banana flavor? Yum! > I think there actually is some industrial cleaner/solvent/lubricant that smells like bananas but I can’t remember what its called. You might be thinking of Hoppe’s #9. ---
**Author:** ![PatriotGrrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9dc877/32.png) [@PatriotGrrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotGrrrl)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/53 "2010-05-23T11:15:08Z")
No, I’m very familiar with Hoppe’s #9! That’s not it. ---
**Author:** ![Quint](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/76d3ee/32.png) [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234/54 "2010-05-23T16:17:01Z")
My new favourite lube and corrosion fighter is [Fluid Film](http://www.nlsproducts.ca/fliudfilmfaq.html). For a marine environment nothing fights rust better. Contains NO solvents. It’s food grade too, so I suppose in a pinch you could eat it. I use it in all my locks, and it smells kind off pleasing. Lanolin based. Check it out. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wd40/540234.md?page=2)