WD40 - any substitute?

MSDS says it's 67% heavy petroleum naphtha - that is white spirit isn't it? - and 21% mineral oil and 10% non-hazardous ingredients plus CO2 propellant.
Did you mean snake oil? (@rogerboy)
 
lenseman said:
WD-40 does not use LPG as the environment in which it can be used can be too dangerous (hot exhaust pipes etc) for any inflammable gaseous propellant! :O


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Sorry can you explain that to me. WD40 is a mixture of heavy naphtha and mieral oil. Heavy naphtha has a flash point of around 0C. If it is unsafe to use LPG as a propellant then how is it safe to spray a highly flammable liquid into the same area?

Industrial safety is what I do for a living.

I do not have a can of WD40 to hand so cannot check the ingredients. However my original comment was aimed at all arosols not just WD40
 
Troubadour said:
MSDS says it's 67% heavy petroleum naphtha - that is white spirit isn't it? - and 21% mineral oil and 10% non-hazardous ingredients plus CO2 propellant.
Did you mean snake oil? (@rogerboy)
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No fish oil, if you google WD40 it tells you all about it , very interesting actually.
 
crewman said:
Very few aerosols use CO2 as propellant, the vast majority use LPG, a few compressed air or nitrogen
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My comment was in response to SAPurdie's comment about storing cans of WD40-type stuff on the boat. I replied that "propellants used in recent years are inert, often carbon dioxide". WD40 uses carbon dioxide as its propellant (you can check this, as I'm sure you'll wish to, on the WD40 website, see http://wd40.com/faqs/#a100 ). Nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and hydrofluoroalkanes are increasingly being used as non-flammable propellants.
 
We have this stuff in Italy http://www.svitol.it/it/home/# which I find pretty good. WD40 has been attempting to penetrate (pardon me) the market, I got a tiny can from a very pretty girl at the Rome Boat show last year, I can't honestly say if it's better or worse than Svitol.

If WD40 and white spirit are naphta, that's interesting because Diesel fuel is traditionally called nafta in Italian, I wonder if it's the same stuff ... ?
 
Zen Zero said:
We have this stuff in Italy http://www.svitol.it/it/home/# which I find pretty good. WD40 has been attempting to penetrate (pardon me) the market, I got a tiny can from a very pretty girl at the Rome Boat show last year, I can't honestly say if it's better or worse than Svitol.

If WD40 and white spirit are naphta, that's interesting because Diesel fuel is traditionally called nafta in Italian, I wonder if it's the same stuff ... ?
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Isn't - or maybe wasn't - NAFTA an oil company? Maybe from that.
Naphtha is a group of hydrocarbon distillates.
 
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"Nafta" (naphta) is Polish word - as names for petroleum products come from Poland. Well, actually it comes from Jews, Hebrew language. Same in Arabic, so may be in India it's local word too.

The whole idea of petrochemy, oil distillation and such was invented in Poland. Nafta was originally name for lamp fuel made from petroleum oil - some kind of it was produced here from about 1800, but this particular distillate of oil as we know it now was made popular with invention of special lamp for it - also here.

Nafta might have been named also by Filip Walter, chemist from Jagiellonian University in Kraków (where I come from ;) ) as he organized chemical names in Polish, and he was the first to make fractional distillation of oil, in 1837.

Only in Anglo-saxon world the name "Kerosene" is used, but kerosene was originally another product, from USA, distilled from coal - also as substitute for natural lamp oils.

In Poland all such things - white spirit, paraffin, kerosene, lamp oil, jet fuel and naphta will be called "Nafta".
In fact it's the same stuff, just slight differences in purity.
Diesel fuel is less refined product, contain heavier fractions, and will not be called 'nafta' here. But originally diesel engines were made for running on nafta, as this was cheap fuel already on market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Łukasiewicz
 
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Rossynant said:
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"Nafta" (naphta) is Polish word - as names for petroleum products come from Poland. Well, actually it comes from Jews, Hebrew language. Same in Arabic, so may be in India it's local word too.

The whole idea of petrochemy, oil distillation and such was invented in Poland. Nafta was originally name for lamp fuel made from petroleum oil - some kind of it was produced here from about 1800, but this particular distillate of oil as we know it now was made popular with invention of special lamp for it - also here.

Nafta might have been named also by Filip Walter, chemist from Jagiellonian University in Kraków (where I come from ;) ) as he organized chemical names in Polish, and he was the first to make fractional distillation of oil, in 1837.

Only in Anglo-saxon world the name "Kerosene" is used, but kerosene was originally another product, from USA, distilled from coal - also as substitute for natural lamp oils.

In Poland all such things - white spirit, paraffin, kerosene, lamp oil, jet fuel and naphta will be called "Nafta".
In fact it's the same stuff, just slight differences in purity.
Diesel fuel is less refined product, contain heavier fractions, and will not be called 'nafta' here. But originally diesel engines were made for running on nafta, as this was cheap fuel already on market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignacy_Łukasiewicz
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Dziękuję! To niesamowite!



I also found answers to questions I've been asking myself for a long time: Kerosene = Nafta = Parrafin = Diesel Fuel = Jet Fuel = Rocket Fuel (-O2) = C12H26

And it's known to be a very good penetrating lubricant!

Upon further reading WD40 is 80% heavy naphtha - ie C9-12!
 
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