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Advert from 1964 when WD40 was released.
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Posted : 12/11/2014 7:58 am
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Awesome


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 8:06 am
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Posted : 12/11/2014 8:10 am
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Plus Gas is better for tight nuts and rusty tools.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 8:16 am
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Made me smile thanks 🙂


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 8:25 am
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Fantastic, that's just brightened my day up!


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 8:50 am
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Sex sells!


 
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Posted : 12/11/2014 9:08 am
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I'll put money on that not being a real advert. Funny though.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 10:04 am
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I'll put money on that not being a real advert.

It must be, it's brown and folded and has slightly ragged edges.
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Posted : 12/11/2014 10:06 am
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Thats straight out of Viz shurely?


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 10:14 am
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Posted : 12/11/2014 12:34 pm
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As a member of the official [url= http://www.mywd40.com/ ]WD-40 Fan club[/url] I can factually state that WD-40 first became commercially available on store shelves in San Diego, California in [b]1958[/b].


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 1:00 pm
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A friend of mine swears that WD40 got rid of his piles for him.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 1:09 pm
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It probably would, but you'd need a good bit of force under the canister.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 3:15 pm
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There's an interesting edition of bottom line which deals with business that only sell one product (Single product companies) - http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/bottomline/all

They had someone from WD-40 on


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 3:32 pm
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It probably would, but you'd need a good bit of force under the canister

.....or if you struck a match to it.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 4:36 pm
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🙄

GT85 is more than twice as good


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 4:43 pm
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Not so interesing fact:

WD-40 isn't some reference to it's viscocity, a chemical or anything clever like that. It was just Water Displacer, 40th version, when it was being developed by the much more interestingly titled "Rocket Chemical Company" as a way of stopping rocket engine components from corroding.


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 4:48 pm
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As the saying goes: You only need two things in life: Duct Tape and WD-40. If it moves and shouldn’t, use Duct Tape, if it doesn’t move and should, use WD-40.


 
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Flowers, you also need flowers, for the things that neither of the others can fix


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 6:14 pm
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I'll put money on that not being a real advert. Funny though.

I've asked my mate who works there if it's real, hopefully when he see's my email tomorrow he'll look into it and let me know and I'll post up here his news.

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GT85 is more than twice as good

WD40 now own and control the sale of GT85 now


 
Posted : 12/11/2014 6:23 pm
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You really think that "makes tools slide in and out with ease" might be a serious selling point ? What tools and sliding in and out of what ?

And how about "makes screwing a pleasure" ? I've screwed things my entire professional life, can't ever recall it being "a pleasure".

I suspect that unless WD40 was briefly owned the Saucy Seaside Postcard Company in the 1960s that the advert which claims that it stands 9" high with a 1 1/2 diameter and a red knob really isn't genuine.

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Posted : 12/11/2014 6:48 pm