[pianotech] What's in WD-40?

Wed Apr 22 14:33:56 PDT 2009

Another 'funny' WD40 story.
Back in the 70's, this store had a trade in with rusty strings, so the owner sprayed them with WD40.
When he told me, I said it was a no no, so his way of getting it off, was with a Bernzamatic torch.
I wasn't there, but he told me the strings broke all over the place, bong bong bong.
He took a grand in trade that had the WD40 treatment, he knew by now, so he offered them practically nothing, and had me put a new pinblock in. Turned out not too bad.
John Ross,
Windsor, Nova Scotia
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Gerald Groot 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 6:18 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] What's in WD-40?

  Care to hear a funny story?  OK!  

  This WD-40 thing reminded of about 25 years ago or so, when WD-40 was thought to be okay.  (No, I don't use it any longer.)  I had just finished raising pitch a full tone to A/440. It was a spinet piano that had squeaks everywhere.  Just when I thought I was done, something else would squeak; a damper spring, soft pedal spring, sustaining pedal spring, key bushing, sustaining pedal rod, etc.  I was already beginning to get POED about it.  FINALLY I got them all fixed after about 20 minutes +.   I took my LARGE can of WD-40 and tossed it into my tool box from about 8 feet away.  Well, as my luck would have it, it just so happened to land on the tip of a screw driver that was sticking up and blew a hole in the can which not only took off like a shot, it was full of course, but, it also squirted everything in sight.  Flailing around like a cat on fire!  When all was said and done, I had WD-40 all over the piano, the floor, the walls, the ceiling everywhere!!!  I think at that moment actually, for several minutes afterward, it was probably a very good thing that there was nobody home that day...  There was a "hint" of blue in the air.  Panicking, I called my dad and said WHAT DO I DO NOW???  I finally managed to get it all from all the walls and everywhere else with soap and water, mixed heavily and a LOT of elbow grease.  

  For some reason, my dad thought that was hillarious!  He was laughing so hard he could hardly tell me what to use to clean it up!!!  

  From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Michael Magness
  Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 12:10 PM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] What's in WD-40?

  On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Jim Moy <jim at moypiano.com> wrote:

  Thought people here might enjoy this:

   http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/st_whatsinside

  or...

   http://tinyurl.com/cv5mg7

  "What's Inside WD-40? Superlube's Secret Sauce - The recipe for this
  superlube has long been a closely guarded trade secret-until now.
  Wired sent a can to the lab and got the ingredients..."

  --
  Jim Moy
  Moy Piano Service, LLC
  http://www.moypiano.com

  I never use the stuff, I found long ago that "lubricating" a lock in Wisconsin at least with WD-40 was a temporary solution at best. It only lasted a few days and then the lock was worse than it had been originally. 

  I discovereed a something called Onelube, made by one of those companies that makes the oil additives that are supposed to extend your engine life, Slick 50 I think it was.

  One shot of Onelube in a lock and it's lubed for life, great stuff.

  Mike
  -- 
  I intend to live forever. So far, so good. 
  Steven Wright 

  Michael Magness
  Magness Piano Service
  608-786-4404
  www.IFixPianos.com
  email mike at ifixpianos.com

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