wot's the difference?
Laura
Does anybody know whether there is any real difference between WD40, RP7
and the CRC whatever-it-is equivalent?
They all claim to do the same thing as far as I can see, that is
lubricate and protect, displace water, start wet engines etc.
They do all smell different, though.
Thing is, a friend uses WD40 as a degreaser when cleaning mucky bits on
her bike. When at my place, I offered her some CRC instead and the
response was not polite (but then she's not a very polite girl).
She (quite rightly, I suppose) suggested that a person who never ever
cleans her bike probably doesn't know a flying whatsit about the
subject.
I always thought these products were essentially the same.
Any enlightenment?
Laura.
Andy
>Does anybody know whether there is any real difference between WD40, RP7
>and the CRC whatever-it-is equivalent
I was talking to a CRC sales rep about it a few months back. He said they
are basically the same.
Theres some story about the guy who invented WD40 working for CRC then
leaving with his formula to set up his own company, so CRC set up their own
brand.
IMHO WD40 seems a little better. The others are "me-too's" in the market.
Cant see why someone would get upset if you offered them the CRC one instead
though - It couldnt hurt!!
Andy
GPX250
Doug Cox
Bugger-all as far as I know. You can use fly spray if you don't mind the
smell....
Doug Cox
Doug...@Bigpond.com
Laura wrote in message <35748E...@tassie.net.au>...
>Does anybody know whether there is any real difference between WD40, RP7
>and the CRC whatever-it-is equivalent?
Lawrie Thorne
Price = $$$$$$
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Eion Forsberg
just a quick fact wd stands for water displacer.......just thought it might
come in handy!!!
Laura wrote:
> Does anybody know whether there is any real difference between WD40, RP7
> and the CRC whatever-it-is equivalent?
>
peter....@nospam.dsto.defence.gov.au
>
>Laura wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know whether there is any real difference between WD40, RP7
>> and the CRC whatever-it-is equivalent?
>>
That'd be CRC626 if memory serves. They're all water-displacing fluids -
they worm their way down to surfaces that have been wetted by water, dissolve
away bulk water in a solvent and coat the surface with an oily, corrosion-
inhibiting layer to inhibit re-wetting.
The differences are detail ones of different components in the blends, different solvents, different oily component. WD40 has a rep. as the
oiliest of the bunch.
They are often mistakenly used as spray lubricants because of the oily
residue they leave - the oily residues are not good lubricants.
They are sometimes used when cleaning elecrical switches etc. and in this
unintended use they are of some small facility but nowhere near as good
as the purpose-formulated switch and contact-cleaning products.
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David Santwyk Anderson
Eion Forsberg wrote in message
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>just a quick fact wd stands for water displacer.......just thought it might
>come in handy!!!
So what is CRC? - cr@p remover!
- and RP??
Just asking
David
E.S. (Scott) Marshall
At a guess I would suggest that RP stands for "RePellant" or "RePeller"
CRC stands for "Cyclic Redundancy Check" (oops - wrong "industry group')
Nup - not sure what CRC stands for in the lubricant/cleaning world.
Cheers,
Scott
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Theo Bekkers
E.S. (Scott) Marshall wrote in message
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>At a guess I would suggest that RP stands for "RePellant" or "RePeller"
>
>CRC stands for "Cyclic Redundancy Check" (oops - wrong "industry group')
Still have the algebra for that somewhere.
Theo
E.S. (Scott) Marshall
Yep! I've still got the source for CRC16 and CRC32 in a number of
languages, as well as the basic algorithm.
Funny how stuff like that sticks around.
You know, I still have an interest in sorting algorithms too.
(No smart comments about what sort am I etc so put your hand down now Shawn)
Cheers,
Scott
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