At 09:19 PM 12/24/2011, Kim Brennan wrote:
>So is water, Scott. A fine lubricant. Yet I don't use water as my
>main lubricant. Nor should folk use WD40 that way. It's main purpose
>is to remove water from a joint. Water displacement formula #40.

Some time in the last five years they apparently gave in and
reformulated WD40.  The MSDS no longer lists Stoddard solvent as the
primary (or any) ingredient and does now contain some lube oil.  And
the marketing material does now specifically list lubrication as an
application.

That said, ordinary machine oil is intended for applications like
small motors and should be superior to many other things for this.

Yours,
David