Interesting!  I just listened to this week's Car Talk.  Click and Clack were on a rant about the legendary Cosmoline that preserved the army surplus Jeeps that many of us were saving our pennies to purchase back in our distant youths.   Stoddard Solvent was a primary ingredient of Cosmoline as well.  Could it be that lavish doses of WD-40 will preserve our Vanagons?   

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 8:48 pm
Subject: Re: [VANAGON] another WD40 use

At 06:10 PM 10/26/2009, Ken Lewis wrote: 

>My grandma once told me it was originally used to relieve arthritis! Just 

>spray it on. 

>I was a lot younger then. PVD (preVANAGON days). 
 

My sainted Grandpa once told me, age seven or so, that I was full of 

stewed prunes.  I was thirty before I figured it out. 
 

The major component of WD-40 is a high grade of mineral spirits 

formally known as Stoddard Solvent.  I like the smell, too. 
 

Yrs, 

D