Wd 40.

[T-Cut]

Originally Posted by SCP440

The WD does stand for Water Displacement so there must be something in it.

Yes, it's called sodium dioctylsulphosuccinate. It causes any moisture on a surface sprayed with WD40 to coalesce into globules and run off.
Don't ask.


TC

[Vanbursta]

Originally Posted by T-Cut

WD40 is much stronger and works harder than Chuck Norris.


TC

Chuck norris was once bitten by a king cobra while on an expedition in the amazon.
After 5 days of agonizing pain, the cobra died

You didn't find Chuck Norris...he found you!!!

Chuck Norris had a street named after him but it had to be changed because no one crosses Chuck Norris and lives.

There is no face behind Chuck's beard, there's another fist

Chuck Norris wasn't put in watch dogs, Watch dogs was buit around him

Chuck Norris once ate Screws from a bowl ........... WITHOUT MILK

Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.

The boogeyman checks for Chuck Norris under his bed before he goes to sleep

Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.

When Alexander bell invented the phone he had 3 missed calls from chuck norris

Chuck Norris is the only man alive who could survive a threesome with Brigitte Nielsen and Grace Jones!!

Chuck Norris's computer has no "backspace" button, Chuck Norris doesn't make mistakes.

Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.

Fear of spiders is aracnaphobia, fear of tight spaces is chlaustraphobia, fear of Chuck Norris is called Logic

Chuck Norris and Superman once fought each other on a bet. The loser had to start wearing his underwear on the outside of his pants.

Some magicans can walk on water, Chuck Norris can swim through land.

Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

Chuck Norris once urinated in a semi truck's gas tank as a joke....that truck is now known as Optimus Prime.

Chuck Norris is the reason why Wally is hiding.

Death once had a near-Chuck Norris experience

Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

Chuck Norris can cut through a hot knife with butter

Chuck Norris once kicked a horse in the chin. Its decendants are known today as Giraffes.

Chuck Norris will never have a heart attack. His heart isn't nearly foolish enough to attack him.

Chuck Norris can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.

There is no theory of evolution. Just a list of animals Chuck Norris allows to live.

The original title for Alien vs. Predator was Alien and Predator vs Chuck Norris.
The film was cancelled shortly after going into preproduction. No one would pay five pounds to see a movie fourteen seconds long.

Chuck Norris doesn’t wear a watch. HE decides what time it is.

Chuck Norris can light a fire by rubbing two ice-cubes together.

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

Chuck Norris made a Happy Meal cry.

Chuck Norris was in all the Star Wars movies............... As The Force.

If you spell Chuck Norris in Scrabble, you win. Forever.

Chuck Norris' hand is the only hand that can beat a Royal Flush.

He won the 1983 World Series of Poker, despite holding only a Joker, a Get out of Jail Free Monopoloy card, a 2 of clubs, 7 of spades and a green #4 card from the game UNO.

Chuck Norris ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.

Be afraid when you see Chuck Norris, be VERY afraid when you don't see Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris runs until the treadmill gets tired

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Aliens are real, they're just hiding from Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris once climbed Mt Everest by accident.

Deaf people can hear Chuck Norris

It takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

Chuck Norris can speak Spanish in three different languages.

How many push-ups can Chuck Norris do? All of them.

Chuck Norris can squeeze apple juice out of a banana.

Chuck Norris completed a 500 piece puzzle with 300 pieces.

Chuck Norris played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

Bet WD40 can't do that !!

[hogweed]

Originally Posted by markypicks

dont know about the window but my mate told me to use autosol metal polish on my headlamps as they were not the best and he said put a thin coat of wd40 on after you've finished . i thought what the hell as i already tried toothpaste with bi carb etc and when i had finished they dont look as if theres any glass in em there great wd40 also good for cleaning trainers,getting marks or chewing gum off carpets etc

Not that you wanted to know this, but… it’s all about refractive indices. If you have a big bottle full of ground glass dust, you can’t see through it – looks like it’s full of white powder. Which it is. Kind of. But fill it up with water mixed with the ground glass, and it becomes transparent.


Same thing happens with many “faded” surfaces (eg car paint, cheap nasty headlight lens plastic etc), whose surfaces have actually gone from being smooth to microscopically rough. Something like WD40 fills all the minute gaps, and restores a smooth, transparent, shiny surface… very temporarily, ie till the first time you wash it.


I’ve often wondered if there’s a suitable lacquer which could be applied to our headlights as an alternative to sanding and polishing them every 5 minutes…?

[bendrick]

WD 40 got the oil deposits off our new carpet the other month after I'd been messing about with the engine and unwittingly tramped the debris through the house.

The wife was placated after seeing the results of my frantic, try anything, clean up following the failure of the old standard...... 'no idea how that got there'..... defence from myself, although it is fair to say that there was a strong whiff of WD40 hanging around for a day or two.

[T-Cut]

Originally Posted by hogweed

I’ve often wondered if there’s a suitable lacquer which could be applied to our headlights as an alternative to sanding and polishing them every 5 minutes…?

There's a sacrificial laquer applied when the headlamps are made. This is a urethane type of film containg a UV absorber to protect the lens, because polycarbonate degrades quite quickly in sunlight. The faded/yellow surface that we abrade off is primarily the laquer and maybe part of the lens itself. You could reapply the proper gloop after grinding and polishing, but few people do at £40 a go. So, we keep regrinding every couple of years. Eventually there's nothing left to grind I guess.


TC

[T-Cut]

Originally Posted by Vanbursta

Chuck Norris - - - -

Chuck Norris would have found this link without my help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCIMA45DTLM


TC

[jonc3725]

Originally Posted by COLVERT

WD 40 gets tar spots off the paintwork quite well.

It plays hell with seals that are made of rubber though. Sort of soaks in and makes them expand.

This all day long.

Don't get WD close to rubber it absolutely kills the compound.

[hogweed]

Originally Posted by T-Cut

There's a sacrificial laquer applied when the headlamps are made. This is a urethane type of film containg a UV absorber to protect the lens, because polycarbonate degrades quite quickly in sunlight. The faded/yellow surface that we abrade off is primarily the laquer and maybe part of the lens itself. You could reapply the proper gloop after grinding and polishing, but few people do at £40 a go. So, we keep regrinding every couple of years. Eventually there's nothing left to grind I guess.


TC

Thanks TC - that's interesting. Trouble is, I ground mine nice and clear, but it took less than a year for them to get back to blurry again.


Then I saw a nice set of crystal clear lamps for sale (not here), and bought them - it only took them 3 weeks to mist over completely, so I guess they had some sort of temporary coating to make them saleable. Hard to prove, though.


Maybe I'll just rub some WD40 in every morning