Yup -- always made me hungry when there was work going on in the boiler
room.

With regards to the materials, most of the hardware in and on the steam
lines was 4140 Cr-Mo.  Not sure if that was also the case for the hardware
near the bilge, which is where the Tabasco was required.

If I talk to some old buds, I will check with them to see if anybody can
corroborate.

Maybe someone else on the list has some experience with it?  As I have
always been curious about this practice, I have, in the past, asked at auto
shops, as well as in the turbine business and pumps business; and no one
has ever heard of such a thing.

gab

On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:54 AM, <mcneely4@cox.net> wrote:

> ---- Gab and Em <shoesandbikes@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > "50% acetone & 50% ATF"
> >
> > I will try that too -- THANKS -- WD40 seems so weak, it drives me crazy.
> >
> > (Navy uses Tabasco by the flat on rusted bolts in the boiler room.  Not
> > sure if it is just that particular type of rusted stainless steel which
> > gets loosened by Tabasco or not; but I haven't had much success with it
> > since exiting the boiler room for the last time.
>
> Tabasco, really?  Well, lactic acid from the pepper fermentation, acetic
> acid from the vinegar, water, capsaicin.  Anything I am missing?  Maybe
> I'll try sour kraut next time I need to loosen a sticky bolt.  Then if that
> doesn't work, a little vinegar.  Then pepper juice.  Then mix two of them.
>  No water by itself though.  Water won't work.  mcneely
>
> --
> David McNeely
>