I found a squeaky door so I got the oil and fixed it… Then did every door I could before my wife caught me.
Am I alone here? It’s so satisfying to just glide open!
Edit: She followed up with: “you’re enjoying yourself too much”
Damn straight I am. It’s the little things you have to enjoy!
This bottle is like 10 years old and it’s maybe halfway. Just need a few dots at the top to drip down the length, open/close a few times then wipe off the extra.
Use it on bike chains locks or really anything that jas metal touching metal. I even have a food safe silicon lubricant for kitchen use. Bought that for my 3D printer though haha. Far too many people use WD40 as a lubricant.
Edit: word of warning it does smell and takes a bit to go away. I tend to do it in the morning and open the windows.
WD40 don’t lube shit!
Its good for getting seized things unstuck but you should always follow with a grease or oil after cleaning.
Getting into bicycling lead me down a rabbit hole of lubricants, anti-seeze compounds and grease… I can’t stop!
Tri-Flow is my go to in this house
Yeap. Bicycling taught me about lubricants too!
Yeah I used WD-40 on a bicycle 2 times, both times it worked for 3 minutes and then it made it much worse. Especially with the chain, grease is indefinitely better for that purpose
WD-40 is mostly solvents with a bit of oil. It’s not meant as a long-term lubricant.
Oddly enough, I kind of like the smell of it.
Same, smells like less squeaking!
I used to be a huge biking enthusiast. Smells like childhood to me!
I’ve always just wiped the squeaky hinges down with petroleum jelly because it’s what was immediately on hand. I don’t bother wiping away too much of the extra closest to the moving bits. It works its way into the hinges well enough. It doesn’t smell. I’ve yet to have to re-apply to any hinge, even years later.