Sometime in the early 1970’s, WD40 came into my world.
At that time I was waging war with the squawky hinges on my kitchen cupboard doors. They were evidently on strike, and creaked and groaned each time I opened a door.
Eventually one stubborn hinge broke altogether in a moment of ultimate protest, which was the last straw. Something must be done! In a flash of inspiration, I remembered a certain blue and yellow can hiding in my husband’s man-cave in the basement: WD40. A lubricant. Yes. I would try it, and save myself from further frustration, and the other hinges from a similar fate. I would end the war.
A squirt here and a squirt there, and those noisy, grinding hinge-voices were hushed. Forever.
Soon after this life-altering discovery, I applied WD 40 to the track of our grumpy-grindy sliding glass door. Sweet success! The door instantly glided across its track like the blade of Olympic skating champion Dorothy Hamill (oops, that dates me – 1976).
Since then I’ve found various ways to unstick stubborn things, and sometimes even defy male mechanical genius. Here’s a story of a recent WD40 bale-out.
The door to our storage area has been chronically hard to open. In fact, grimaced every time I placed my hand on the knob, and often grunted and groaned to make sure those within hearing distance knew of my distress. Sometimes it took a full minute for me to wiggle the knob back and forth, and push and pull enough, to open that door! With each attempt, my weakening old-lady grip seemed to fail me, even though I twisted, turned, and verbally chastised the annoying knob. This happened regularly. Like many times a day. For months.
The good news is this. After such a long struggle, and being convinced the problem was a mechanical one that couldn’t be remedied except with a tool-intensive application of a replacement knob (which is manly work and therefore a topic to be avoided), I finally tried three little squirts of WD40.
One, two, three. Problem solved. NO sticking whatsoever. AH!
Thank you, WD40, for saving me once again. You ARE my best friend.
1 comment:
Love wd40! i used to get the name wrong and drove my husband nuts when I kept asking for the dw40. turns out I had been reading a lot of children's books with a character named DW. lol every girl's toolbox should have wd40, pink tools and never be without pink ducktape!!
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