[ARC5] Chassis Cleaning

[Robert Eleazer]

Relative to WD-40, it originally was designed as a wipe down for the stainless steel skins of Atlas ICBMs and later was adopted for a similar purpose for other ballistic missiles.  And it contains a cleaner in addition to the mineral spirits.  It is great stuff and inspired the entire spray lubricant industry.  However, I have found that mineral sprits by themselves will not dissolve plain old dirt, mud, such as dirt dauber wasp nests; that requires water.  The cleaning agent in WD-40 may help with getting rid of mud, but I have not tried it for that.

If you are cleaning actual electronic parts, such as potentiometers I prefer LPS-1 to WD-40. 

Wayne
WB5WSV        
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