Thread: LOCK a doodle do !

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I can remember noticing a rotten egg smell while visiting a relative in an Old Folks Home and when I asked about it the attendant just said "oh, that's only DMSO, we smell it all the time around here". BARF

I've heard that more than once myself.

Originally Posted by MelloYello

When I was in Pathalogical Farrier's School (Horseshoeing) my Instructor told us that the formula for DMSO was almost the same as WD-40 and that's why some folks got relief of their Arthritis by using it. Don't know but that's what he said and he was very smart and talented.

My locksmith I've used for 20 some odd years says to never use graphite because it will jam the tumblers. Can't even count how many trunk or door locks I've fixed by spraying some carb clean into them, blow em out and squirt some 5/w20 or machine oil in them. My cousin is a gun smith and says never ever use wd40 on a weapon. I refuse to have wd 40 in my shop.

Out here in the dry desert, powdered graphite does not seem to be a real problem, and I have used it in locks and hinges for a long time; I do not, however, just squirt it into the mechanism and leave it at that, I put it in, work the joint(s) around until they have a nice slip to them, and then blow the residue out of the lock or hinge and wipe it away, and never have had a problem with it. Now, when I lived on the coast, it was a different story, and powdered graphite would clump and clog a lock very easily.

I do have a can of WD-40 or two around the place, and have always had some in my tool box; two reasons: first, I use it for it's intended purpose, water displacement, and second, my Bride goes out and buys a can of it every time she can't find one around the house. I have tried to convince her that there are proper lubricants for stopping squeaky door hinges and slicking things up, but she persists, so I let it slide. I admit to keeping a can of it in my gun shop, but it's there just because it is; back when I was very active in competition, and spent a lot of my scarce free time out in the environment with a firearm or two hanging on me, I sometimes got myself and them wet, and I'd strip them and give them a good squirting down with it before I cleaned them, BUT NEVER AFTER; then, they got the proper oiling.

Em(E), that Jerry Clower video took me back a few years, thank you very much: I used to work with a guy named Murph, God rest him. He was a senior operator in a large switching center, and had jurisdiction on several of the EHV lines that came into the switching center where I was an operator. He had a peculiar sort of vernacular, and I considered it his hallmark phrase to "ease on over there" and perform some switching operation or other function that I had to get cleared through him. When he passed away - on the job - an informal announcement was sent around the system that he had passed away and "just eased on up to heaven".

Always, always, always--
Talk to the man // woman about the car!! Great to get to know someone, & possibly repeat business!!

Sorry he was in " Mute " mode.... His loss.......

Good one!
I've been having a bit of a problem with the door lock on the bus, and remembered Em had had a similar problem a while back, so checked out your thread.
Now I know what to do and what not to do and didn't even have to ask!
Thank-you Mr Byers!

I have had nothing but good luck with wd40 and padlocks that live outside locking the fence year round. When I was a kid, we used it to clean our derailers and chains on our bike. Once cleaned we always followed up with a light oiling. My fence padlock has been in use 18years now, and about every three to five years it gets a little stiff, so it gets a squirt of wd40 which always does the trick to loosen it up for another 3-5 years. I agree that it is good to always oil after cleaning with WD40, I just never have on the pad lock. For lists of other uses for WD40 one of the best is graffiti removal. Some punk kid taged out neighborhood about 5 years ago. I read try using WD40, it took the paint rigth off the garbage can, must of depressed the tagger as the neighbors caught on, and by the next gargage day, we were tag free, he never came back!
Along the same lines as wd40, Ballistol used in ww2 for cleaning guns, also was sprayed on cuts and scratches to prevent infection. Pretty cool stuff