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Re: agree

William Duffield

I looked up the SDS for WD40.

https://files.wd40.com/pdf/sds/mup/wd-40-multi-use-product-aerosol-low-voc-sds-us-ghs.pdf

The word "lethal" is associated with the word "aspirant". It also states "Extremely Flammable Aerosol". If you leave it in a closed auto in the summer sun, it can explode. It also states some permissible exposure limits (in mg per kg and g per kg). My wife's experience with it was over 20 years ago, in an industrial setting. She was doing OSHA compliance analysis of a stucco company (home construction industry). To keep the stucco from sticking to all the parts of the building that they didn't want it to stick to (windows, doors, trim, etc.) they were coating those parts with WD40 before spraying or troweling on the stucco. She found that they were way over the PEL, and corrections in their procedures/process were needed.

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nothing in your reply answers the question

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

nothing in your reply that answers the question of what justifies the word "nasty".

my CIH wife tells me it has nasty stuff in it,

It has hydrocarbons in it- like mineral spirits, naptha, lamp oil, mineral oil and the like. I do not see a justification for claiming WD40 has nasty stuff in it.

Would I spray it in vast quantities in an enclosed space where I worked? No. This conversation started with whiff of it on a sharpening stone. Given the bizzillions of cans of this stuff sold, if it was as harmful as you imply I think we would have heard about it before now.

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