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oldbikeman
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Great for wet electrics , bad for stopping them corroding.want proof?
Put a shiny new pound coin in a glass of WD40 ,wait a few months and them look at it.Ruined my commemorative collection.Castrol DWF is OK but I cannot source any more of it.
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Trying to keep them nice and shiny and so that I had a tenner handy.WDF has always been the better of the two but not as well Known.
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oldbikeman wrote:Great for wet electrics , bad for stopping them corroding.want proof?
Put a shiny new pound coin in a glass of WD40 ,wait a few months and them look at it.Ruined my commemorative collection.Castrol DWF is OK but I cannot source any more of it.
Are storms made of nickel brass then? :eek2
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A lot of the electrics are.
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oldbikeman wrote:A lot of the electrics are.
Good point well made!! :oops:
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