Went to buy a new headlight bulb and, as you do, was rummaging around the shelves of the local parts emporium and came across some German stuff rebadged under Loctite's branding which seems, well, cool. The idea is you spray this aerosol stuff onto seized up bits. Somehow (by a canny bit of evaporation?) it drops the temperature of the thing to -45 degrees C ..... At which temperature, so the spiel on the side of the can assures the discerning prospective purchaser, the rust goes all friable and crumbly and falls apart. Then, as the piss de resistance (with an accent on the e if you've a decent keyboard), its designed so the sprayed threaded area then sucks a penetrating oil cum high tech lubricant in along the thread to finish the job. At -45 degrees C its genuinely cool. But does it work? Has anyone tried it? Equally, has anyone any idea why they feel a need to specifically warn you not to spray it on fish (which it is, allegedly, bad for)? Is spraying novel aerosols on fish a respected Teutonic tradition which I've somehow missed? -- Nidge ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5 'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'. Homer (Simpson).
No, but I suppose that it works the same way as electronic freezer spray: it evaporates almost instantly and the enthalpy change, or whatever the correct word is, draws the heat out of the target part. Works great as a fly/wasp cryo system.
Its on the front of the top shelf that's nearest the counter in Bedford Battery : ) Akshewerly, that's really odd ...... unable to face the thought of the moaning and whining that might ensue I went to the Locite/Henkel homepage ......... Loads of stuff listed & described but nowt like this stuff. -- Nidge ZX6R J2 Stunning in zit yellow. KX 125 MX 'I'm snot green -fly ME'. A few bits of CB500S in Norwegian Parrot blue. BOTAFOT#63 BOMB#5 'Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand'. Homer (Simpson).
