
Originally Posted by
Peters
WD40 is NOT a light oil. The WD is for Water Displacement. It is fine for spraying in a water soaked distributor to get a car started. It's also fine for cleaning motorcycle chains. It is not a lubricant. It has no place in protecting a firearm.
+1. It's quite good for removing moisture & oily crud from dirty chainsaws, if you want to clean one in a hurry and get it back to work.
Thinking hard to try and conjure up a scenario where WD40 would be useful in a gun, I suppose it might have been useful in the muddy Belgian trenches of WWI, to get moisture out of mud-covered guns quickly, although I doubt events then progressed slowly enough for anyone to worry about rust pits on their guns..!
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