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Markverhyden said:
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Wow - that picture looks like a time-machine back to 1958. Formica with the chrome edges, I'll bet those square tile on the floor are asbestos, and that turquoise wall tile. I'll bet if we could see the faucets on the sink they would be chrome models with the "X" handles, too. Did the medicine chest have Unguentine and Mercurochrome?
 
Larry Sabo said:
When I was a kid, our phone looked like this. It didn't have a rotary dial; you spoke to an operator and gave her the name or number of the party you wanted to talk to and she connected you by plugging a line into a patch-panel.. It was on a party line along with another neighbour or two.

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Holy cow, Pops! You either, umm, have a few years on me (yeah, that's not too offensive!), or you grew up in the Sub-Boonies that were the last places to get the modern conveniences. I've only seen those phones in movies and antique shops. Here I was about to tell you to 'Get off my lawn!', but I guess that won't work now, so I'll just end with 'Yes, Sir.......Thank You, Sir......' (slinks away) :p
 
I recently discovered WD40 is excellent for removing the gluey residue left behind by stickers and told my partner. Yesterday, he asks me where it’s stored in the office, as he needed to try it out. For the next five minutes, I was vaguely aware of spraying and rubbing sounds in the next room followed by sighs of exasperation. Eventually, he shouts “that’s a load of nonsense. Doesn’t work at all”. So I go to investigate. There he is, spraying compressed air on the glass while rubbing the glue about with a rag, getting more and more exasperated. Wasn’t wearing his glasses. But it got me thinking - how much worse it would be if you mistook WD-40 for compressed air and totalled someone’s motherboard. Maybe I shouldn’t store those two together.
 
mdownes said:
I recently discovered WD40 is excellent for removing the gluey residue left behind by stickers and told my partner. Yesterday, he asks me where it’s stored in the office, as he needed to try it out. For the next five minutes, I was vaguely aware of spraying and rubbing sounds in the next room followed by sighs of exasperation. Eventually, he shouts “that’s a load of nonsense. Doesn’t work at all”. So I go to investigate. There he is, spraying compressed air on the glass while rubbing the glue about with a rag, getting more and more exasperated. Wasn’t wearing his glasses. But it got me thinking - how much worse it would be if you mistook WD-40 for compressed air and totalled someone’s motherboard. Maybe I shouldn’t store those two together.
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Yeah, but I don't think WD-40 would harm a motherboard other than make it attract a bunch of dust. You can spray that stuff on high-voltage spark plug wires, in distributor caps, in fuse boxes, it displaces water. I am not saying it would be good, but it probably woudln't ruin a board.
 
mdownes said:
I recently discovered WD40 is excellent for removing the gluey residue left behind by stickers and told my partner. Yesterday, he asks me where it’s stored in the office, as he needed to try it out. For the next five minutes, I was vaguely aware of spraying and rubbing sounds in the next room followed by sighs of exasperation. Eventually, he shouts “that’s a load of nonsense. Doesn’t work at all”. So I go to investigate. There he is, spraying compressed air on the glass while rubbing the glue about with a rag, getting more and more exasperated. Wasn’t wearing his glasses. But it got me thinking - how much worse it would be if you mistook WD-40 for compressed air and totalled someone’s motherboard. Maybe I shouldn’t store those two together.
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LOL!!! Wouldn't be the first or last to make that mistake.

Legend is, as I heard, it started as a project during WWII. That was the first war where electronics played a major part across all all services and theaters. The Allies were looking for something to display water, the WD part, as well as prevent corrosion. 40 is supposed to be the final, 40th, formula which happened in the early 50's. Obviously I can't vouch for that.

But I can vouch for the electronics part. First ran into it back in the late 70's on drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. The company I worked for deployed all kind on instruments to monitor drilling. When we rigged up the systems every external junction box got a quick spray on the terminal blocks as well as circuit boards. If we had to clean up some corrosion, always used erasers, another spray was always part of the process.

It's a very light hydrocarbon so most of it will flash off within a few hours or days after application. But @NETWizz is correct, excessive use with no cleaned up, will attract a dust build up.

In a pinch I've used it on surface mount boxes, spark plug wires, power outlets. Right up there with duct tape for an important tool. But don't remember seeing it mentioned on The Red Green Show. LOL!!!
 
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