Re: 5th Wheel "Landing Gear" Grief

My Name Is Nobody wrote:
"williamboyd" <williamboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:471d411e@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
My Name Is Nobody wrote:
"R.J.(Bob) Evans" <bob at rjevans dot org> wrote in message news:kv6qh3dhrlu0uk1i0ejut4t7686cba6j1q@xxxxxxxxxx
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:06:07 -0400 Lon VanOstran
<lcvanostran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think that it's lack of use. Steel rusts. That fifth wheel wasn't
built to be used as a park unit. Hook onto it once in a while, and run
the gear up and down.

Bingo - I think we've got a winner. The manually extensible portions
of our fiver legs used to seize up regularly until I took them out,
ground the corners off, bashed the sides (gently) with a large hammer
and repainted the whole works to cover up the mess I'd made. Then I
kept lots of weasel piss on them for the rest of the time we owned the
rig.

Follow Lon's advice & keep the moving portions slobbered up with WD40
or whatever your favorite brand of weasel piss is.

PLEASE, WD40 IS NOT a "lubricant", WD40 is not sold, nor should it be used as a replacement for an appropriately selected lubricant, use spray white lithium grease, or another actual "lubricant".
When we developed it for the Atlas Missile we considered it as a lubricant for the Stainless Steel tanks, worked as a good lubricant then and I even use it now. Grant you there has been advancement in spray lubricants but you will find them a lot more expensive, they haven't payed for their R&D yet. Even diesel fuel makes a good lubricant for many things.
By the way White Lithium is made by WD-40 Company.
http://wd40.com/AboutUs/our_history.html


Well if you ever actually had occasion to use it in adverse applications YOU TOO WOULD KNOW WD-40 IS NOT A "LUBRICANT", and you have been misusing it.

It is a "water displacement" compound, NOT A "LUBRICANT".

Water Displacement #40. The product began from a search for a rust Preventative solvent and degreaser to protect missile parts. WD-40 was created in 1953 by three technicians at the San Diego Rocket Chemical Company. Its name comes from the project that was to find a "water displacement" compound. They were successful with the fortieth formulation, thus WD-40. Note, none of the three were named William Boyd.

All you have done here is copy and paste what I posted. I was in the Atlas missile program and was involved in the development of the stuff.You really don't believe those three fellas owned an Atlas Missile to help them develop the WD-40 do you. Many things were developed for DOD and the Missile program, the US Government payed for much of the R&D cost of things like WD-40 and Teflon as well as a few more spin off products. Of course Teflon was developed much earlier it got a big boost up with the Missile program as seals in the LOX and LN2 systems.

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