I don't use WD 40 every day or even every week but I try to keep a can around just in case. My kids however use the stuff often. They wet down their bike chains, skateboard wheels and RC cars with the stuff and it seems as if each can has just enough propellant for one application. Every time I reach for a can I find it 3/4 full with no propellant. Doesn't matter what size can either. The little short ones or the 33% extra jumbo jobs all hold enough gas to be used once...around my house. So this weekend I was working on my boat and once again in need of WD40. I gathered up the 3 or 4 cans I had in the garage, the 2 in the house and 2 more outside where the kids had dropped them after dousing their bikes. All still had oil and none propellant. Rather than buy yet another can I punched holes in the top of each one and emptied them into an empty glass cleaner bottle. I was able to get an entire bottle full of WD40 from the gasless cans. The bottle still has the original label on it of course. I know that as long as it has the word "cleaner" on it the kids will leave it alone and for the first time in ages I'll actually have some available to me without a trip to the store. Am I the only one or does anyone else's kids leave their tools outside to gather "patina"? Luckily I live where the soil is sandy. After each rain I walk around the yard to see what tools have washed out of the ground. Maybe its the water here because I've found several tools that weren't even mine. I found an old padlock the other day after a rain. Brass masterlock. It was open even. I mad a mistake and left it on my workbench. My youngest decided it would be the perfect lock to put on my tool cabinet. The lock still functions perfectly. I wish I'd found the key too. Would have saved some cutting. Walked in the garage the other day and my 11 yr old and 12 yr old had been having a fight of sorts. They were trying to freeze each other. Seems they had discovered a couple of cans of starting fluid I had and had been blasting each other with it. The air was thick with it. I don't know why they hadn't passed out. We were lucky the garage hadn't exploded. I don't remember doing anything quite so stupid or dangerous but I probably did sometime or other. It's miraculous that any of us survive childhood or keep our sanity through parenthood.
My older brother and I just used our fists and shot each other with BB guns. I think it was Shakespeare who said; Youth is wasted on the young.
Just wait til they find out wd40 can be used as a flame thrower and start torching everything. Hopefully they never figure out it's a cheap high also, then you've got a real problem on your hands.
Yeah, I have to watch my tools like a hawk when the kids use them. Found my then 6 yr old and his friend smashing cactus with my Snap-on dead blow. That was fun. We used to have "fire fights" with air charged propellant cans and lighters. B-12 chemtool works gooooooood!!!
We used to have tent worm problems where I grew up. As a kid I'd get a Bic and a good sized can of WD40 and have at it. Seemed to work pretty well
did you know you can buy WD-40 in a spray bottle? http://www.shoplet.com/office/db/gCWDC9615.html then you just buy the shit by the gallon.... http://www.bobthejanitor.com/wdc10110.html
LMAO! - I used to do the same thing.....only to kill mosquitos or flys in the garage.....hell I remember putting gasoline in a sandwich bag and stuffin that into an estes rocket i had built and launching it with the nosecone glued on..... it made one hell of a fireball!
its all fun and games untiol someone fillis a super soaker with gasoline and goes for the gold. http://www.m90.org/view_image.php?image_id=4259
I think it has something to do with the natural selection process... just don't let them go to www.big-boys.com and see the video of the kids that filled the Super Soaker water gun with wd-40 and used it as a flame thrower! The video is a few pages back by now... but worth a look see to the pyros out there... Sam.
I think putting "patina" on dads tools is hereditary, we used to do it all the time to my dad, he always saids if he had to he couldn't steal enough to keep up with his losses its not so funny when I walk outside to find tools scattered all over the place where one of my kids did a bike repair one time I found all the stuff I had on my bench scattered all over the floor, asked what happened and nobody knew anything about it, a little investigation and interrogation revieled they had been to the neighbours place "rescueing" gophers by hauling them home still stuck in traps and using my vise to squeeze the trap springs together to let them lose for their bikes and stuff I let them use old drain oil in a regular type oil can and they can oil til their hearts are content as soon as they mature a bit I'll show them how to use flammable spray can as flame throwers!
My guess is part of the problem is kids don't hold the can upright so a lot of the propelent is lost and not much oil comes out. School'em a bit on the art of the rattle can and see if that helps.
I can't really speak to the stupidity of youth, I still catch myself doing some pretty stupid stuff. Two years ago I had bees make a nest in my little tin garden shed under some shelves. I used brake clean and soaked their nest and then used the spray as a flamethower to light the nest. Stupid me never thought of the fumes accumulating in the shed and blew it clean of it's cement foundation! The shed just didn't sit right after that, but I got rid of my bee problem grumper
My boss grew up on a Ranch out here by the Rez. The local barkeep paid him and his brothers to sweep the floor and other oddjobs. He also bought fur and paid a bounty on prairie dog feet. He told the boys one day he would pay them $5 if they could capture a live prairie dog! What do a bunch of young guys do? They go on a safari@! Out into the Badlands on horseback, after chasing down a dog on a mesa and cornering him, one of Genes brothers threw a yellow rain slicker over him knocked him out and caught the little pest. They rolled up the slicker and tied it to the saddle horn on one of the brothers horses and proceded to start riding to the tavern to collect their "bounty" A few miles down the trail, the little bugger came to...................he was real pissed and chewed his way out of the slicker and aimed for the closest thing to the saddle horn...........................you guessed it, the family jewels!!!!!!!!! After they got the pissed off prairie dog off him and subdued they slung the little guy under a pole like you see in the African safari pictures!!! They collected their $5
mmm, potato gun!!! I tend to prefer aqua net... My father in-laws PNEUMATIC potato cannon puts mine to shame no matter what though...
Carbide cannon with a pringles can was always a favorite or surgical hose on a sand pail to launch water balloons a hundred yards at on coming objects.I guess when your young you think your gonna live for ever.Kinda invicable. Later Shoe
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