WD-40 is not just for Rick strings any more

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 4:53 am

And if you really want frustration, spray it first and then try to duct tape it...

Ron, any furniture of real monetary or sentimental value (well-made hardwood stuff and antiques) should be treated with traditional materials, not Liquid Panacea.

Wood that is waxed with traditional wood waxes has a better "feel" and look than anything waxed with Pledge or WD-40. Not to mention smell. Years ago, I had friends--newlyweds like me and my Test Wife--who lived in the upstairs apartment. They used Pledge--lots of it--the lady was a compulsive cleaner--on their cheap Formica-and-vinyl-over-MDF Sears dining room suite.

They got the creeps because the "centerpiece" on their Formica-woodgrain-topped dining table, this awful Capodimante Michael Jackson/Jeff Koontz-looking ceramic thing, kept moving several inches to one side while they were at work every day.

It turns out that the floor was not level, and there was heavy truck traffic down our street for a few weeks due to sewer repairs...the trucks would shake the building, and over a few hours, Mikey would slide...

rickaddict · Post by **rickaddict** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 7:16 am

Test wife?! Ha ha!

Funny story too!

lyle_from_minneapolis · Fri Apr 06, 2007 8:09 am

I'm still married to my first wife, but she doesn't like it when I introduce her as such.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:17 am

Mine gets a little perturbed when, as a geek-joke, I introduce her as my "current wife". With our 13 year age difference, she then refers to me as her "soon-to-be late husband". Technically, she is correct, and so am I. Temporally, she is on equally valid footing with me, as one can define "soon" on various interesting timescales

Tonewise, I wish she didn't sound quite so impatient when she says it.....

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:25 am

One piece of advice I can offer is next time you are talking to your buddies while gathered around the open hood of your favorite Saturday afternoon 60s muscle car project, and you think your wife didn't notice you spotting her coming with sandwiches and drinks, NEVER in a weak moment decide to be funny by holding up to your buddies the can of WD-40 with which you just sprayed the inside of the rotor cap, and in a fake-loud voice exclaim "...and never try to use WD-40 as a sexual lubricant...". When she draws near, you will not get your sandwiches handed to you the way you thought you would

charlyg · Post by **charlyg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 9:51 am

Two words that must ALWAYS be said with conviction: Yes Dear!

Comments to the wife, and basses, both depend heavily on tone!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:14 am

Mine has that growly tone that Ricks and Brasilians are famous for.

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 11:24 am

Elys - was that caveat from personal experience?!

"Mine has that growly tone that Ricks and Brasilians are famous for."

And then there is "the look"....

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 2:07 pm

Unfortunately, yes

Truly a Tim Allen scene from Home Improvement, but in real life.

She does have a markedly clanky, trebly tone and lots of growl when hard-pressed. Bulbous headstock and a fast neck. A little truss rod rattle, though, even at her age. Lots of bottom. Very hot pickups though, she can crank her amp up to 11 when she wants..

OH yes, I posted here not too long back about The Look!

johnallg · Post by **johnallg** » Fri Apr 06, 2007 5:38 pm

Any man with a significant other knows of "the look"!

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 6:38 am

I like it as a dessert topping!

nic37 · Post by **nic37** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 11:35 am

Didn´t Rickenbacker Use to spray the outside of their cases with WD-40? I seem to remember John Hall telling so.

jimk · Post by **jimk** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 12:58 pm

What for?

JimK

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Tue Apr 10, 2007 2:24 pm

WD-40 is great for dislodging those annoying chunks of earwax that stick to your eardrum, too. You know the ones! That dried gluey stuff the Q-tip just can't quite knock loose. Squirt a little of that up your ear, using the included red tubular Official Ear Cleaning Adapter, and then the gluey stuff practically slides right off onto the Q-tip!!

Those newly-cleaned eardrums make your Rick sound lots better to you afterwards too

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 8:45 am

The rule of thumb that I was 'taught' was to use WD-40 first as a cleaner/degreaser, then apply a 'real' oil or grease as a lube. The reason that I was given was that the amount of actual lubricant in WD-40 is minor compared to the cleaning agents, so that the part(s) will be clean but not sufficiently lubed, being that WD-40 is primarily a cleaner.

[Edit} Rats! Post # 4080, and I didn't notice ... oh well, everyone's seen my 4080 JG anyway ...