Re: Safe to use WD40 as switch or potentiometer cleaner?

From: Ken Weitzel (kweitzel_at_shaw.ca)
Date: 08/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 03:29:52 GMT

Woody wrote:

> "Ken G." <goodguyy@webtv.net> wrote in message
> news:18920-41234F7B-2@storefull-3258.bay.webtv.net...
>
>>There is a large ``cult`` against wd40 because someone chose to start it
>>then the rest have not tried it and are hell bent that it wont work .
>>
>>For ordinary pot , switch , control cleaning wd40 works fine . More is
>>not better . It does not leave gunk behind .
>>
>>
>
>
> The old favourite was carbon tetrachloride (if you can still get it) with a
> drop if machine oil in it - usually one drop of 3-in-1 in a teaspoonful of
> CTC.

Yikes! Scary scary stuff!

Carbon tet has been banned here since I was a
young fellow, and that was back about the time
they invented dirt :) Or dirty controls, anyway :)

Don't even think about buying it. And if you should
happen to have some, please get rid of it. Safely.
Call your hazardous waste folks.

Ken