| [GMCnet] What is in WD 40?? [message #110429] |
Fri, 31 December 2010 20:41  |
Charles Aulgur
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Hey, that trick originated in Minneeesota.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Larry <weidnerl@wwt.net> wrote:
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> Years ago I went catfishing with a now deceased son-in-law. We
> weren't
> catching anything until he got out his WD-40. Sprayed a little on the
> chicken gizzards we were using and....started catching cats. Would
> not have
> believed it if I hadn't seen it. Must be the fish oil in it.
>
> Add that to your list of uses for WD-40. :d
> --
> Larry :)
That sounds like another good use for WD 40 but now the original
use. I came directly out of college to work as a mechanical engineer
for General Dynamics here in San Diego and spent my total carrier
working for them in the Aerospace business. I was original assigned
to work on the Atlas Missile. It was the first rocket designed to
launch an atomic warhead on Russia. The Atlas was a long cigar
shaped missile with the fuel tanks made by welding 10' diameter round
sections made of hardened 321 SS. The round sections were joined
together with an overlap of a few inches and welded together with a
continuos spot weld seam which sealed them together. On each side
of the seam weld there was another ring of spot welds about one inch
apart for reinforcement. This overlapping joint is what caused WD 40
to be developed to displace moisture from this overlap to prevent
corrosion around the exposed spot welds, but don't ask me what it was
made from. The Atlas was first developed for the Air Force to be
placed in silos around the US for only a few years, until solid fuel
rockets that were big enough to launch an atomic warhead could be
developed. It lived on to place the first man in orbit around the
earth and many other spacecraft and is still being made today in
Denver by LM, but it now flies with Russian engines because the are
cheaper then the US made engines. This WD 40 discussions has brought
back many good memories.
Chuck
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| Re: [GMCnet] What is in WD 40?? [message #110453 is a reply to message #110429] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 06:54  |
Steven Ferguson
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Great saga Chuck. Now we all know why it was developed.
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:41 PM, Charles Aulgur <cwasdc@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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> Hey, that trick originated in Minneeesota.
>
> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Larry <weidnerl@wwt.net> wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> > Years ago I went catfishing with a now deceased son-in-law. We
> > weren't
> > catching anything until he got out his WD-40. Sprayed a little on the
> > chicken gizzards we were using and....started catching cats. Would
> > not have
> > believed it if I hadn't seen it. Must be the fish oil in it.
> >
> > Add that to your list of uses for WD-40. :d
> > --
> > Larry :)
>
> That sounds like another good use for WD 40 but now the original
> use. I came directly out of college to work as a mechanical engineer
> for General Dynamics here in San Diego and spent my total carrier
> working for them in the Aerospace business. I was original assigned
> to work on the Atlas Missile. It was the first rocket designed to
> launch an atomic warhead on Russia. The Atlas was a long cigar
> shaped missile with the fuel tanks made by welding 10' diameter round
> sections made of hardened 321 SS. The round sections were joined
> together with an overlap of a few inches and welded together with a
> continuos spot weld seam which sealed them together. On each side
> of the seam weld there was another ring of spot welds about one inch
> apart for reinforcement. This overlapping joint is what caused WD 40
> to be developed to displace moisture from this overlap to prevent
> corrosion around the exposed spot welds, but don't ask me what it was
> made from. The Atlas was first developed for the Air Force to be
> placed in silos around the US for only a few years, until solid fuel
> rockets that were big enough to launch an atomic warhead could be
> developed. It lived on to place the first man in orbit around the
> earth and many other spacecraft and is still being made today in
> Denver by LM, but it now flies with Russian engines because the are
> cheaper then the US made engines. This WD 40 discussions has brought
> back many good memories.
>
> Chuck
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| Re: [GMCnet] What is in WD 40?? [message #110460 is a reply to message #110453] |
Sat, 01 January 2011 07:45 |
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My oldest brother was in the AF. He was a crew chief (five-man crews) in the
Atlas program stationed at Walker in Roswell. The crews were also in the
silo, one crew per missile. That was in 1962. By 1964 he changed to the
Minute Man. They had two-man crews in underground bunkers; a commander and
deputy commander. He was at Ellsworth in South Dakota where, today, the
National Park Service has a silo preserved and open to the public. The days
of the Cold WarŠ
Byron
Chuck wrote:
> That sounds like another good use for WD 40 but now the original
> use. I came directly out of college to work as a mechanical engineer
> for General Dynamics here in San Diego and spent my total carrier
> working for them in the Aerospace business. I was original assigned
> to work on the Atlas Missile. It was the first rocket designed to
> launch an atomic warhead on Russia. The Atlas was a long cigar
> shaped missile with the fuel tanks made by welding 10' diameter round
> sections made of hardened 321 SS. The round sections were joined
> together with an overlap of a few inches and welded together with a
> continuos spot weld seam which sealed them together. On each side
> of the seam weld there was another ring of spot welds about one inch
> apart for reinforcement. This overlapping joint is what caused WD 40
> to be developed to displace moisture from this overlap to prevent
> corrosion around the exposed spot welds, but don't ask me what it was
> made from. The Atlas was first developed for the Air Force to be
> placed in silos around the US for only a few years, until solid fuel
> rockets that were big enough to launch an atomic warhead could be
> developed. It lived on to place the first man in orbit around the
> earth and many other spacecraft and is still being made today in
> Denver by LM, but it now flies with Russian engines because the are
> cheaper then the US made engines. This WD 40 discussions has brought
> back many good memories.
>
> Chuck
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