Moose recently posted:
"Parenthetically, WD-40 seems to be widely misunderstood. It is not really
a lubricant. It was developed for the military
during WWII for the express purpose of water displacement, hence the WD
name. It was the 40th formula tried, hence WD-40."
OK, Moose, my apologies, not quite a web of lies. But, out of
curiosity, I put "WD-40 development" into Google and got to <
http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/WDFourty.htm> WD-40 does
stand for Water Displacement, and it was the 40th attempt to develop it,
but is was done by three engineers, not the military, in 1953, not WWII.
I mentioned to Moose offline, "OMG, but I just love all the useless
little bits of shit that one learns on the OM List!"
Dean
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