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

From: Keith Willcocks (keith.willcocks.nospam_at_btinternet.com.nospam)
Date: 08/25/04 

Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 21:02:05 +0000 (UTC)

You reminded me that you can drastically extend the life of a worn out
ribbon on a dot matrix printer by opening the cassette and spraying the
ribbon with WD40. Sounds daft but works extremely well, a friend has
ribbons that have been sprayed 3 or 4 times and are years old and still
working. 

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Keith Willcocks
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"mitch perkins" <mitchsperkins@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Richard Henry" <rphenry@home.com> wrote in message
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> >
> > Just this week I used WD-40 to lubricate the garden gate hinges and
sprayed
> > some on the cutters after pruning some shrubs.
> >
> > Years ago in youthful ignorance I tried to clean a coffee spill out of a
> > computer keyboard with it.  I eventually just got a new keyboard.
>
>   If you can manage to sneak a squirt of WD40 into your slot-car motor
> just before a race, victory will be yours! Not, however, if the track
> is full-living-room sized and the race is more than 15 laps. Also the
> resulting aroma, while exceedingly pleasant, will give you away.
>   Make sure not to spill any on the rear wheels, or you're *done*.
>
>   Mitch
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