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Source for Gibbs Mega Penatrant?

Anyone know of a good source for this stuff that may be found locally? My FLAP doesn't seem to carry it.

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I've got a whole case of something called Gibb's penetrant. I don't know if it's the same stuff. I can ship some to you, as I'll never use it all. I'll go out to the shop in the morning and check it. I'll post a picture.
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Or mix your own. Acetone-ATF mixture is known to work as-good-or-better than any retail penetrating oil at about 1/100th the cost.

For all of you that are mechanically inclined..... Penetrating Oils Compared A study done by Machinist's Workshop magazine in their April 2007 issue looked at different penetrating oils to see which one did the best job of removing a rusted bolt by measuring the pounds of torque required to loosen the bolt once treated. If the study was scientifically accurate, it turns out a home brew works best! Here's the summary of the test results:

Penetrating oil .......... Average load

None ..................... 516 pounds

WD-40 .................... 238 pounds

PB Blaster ............... 214 pounds

Liquid Wrench ............ 127 pounds

Kano Kroil ............... 106 pounds

ATF-Acetone mix.............53 pounds

The Automatic Transmission fluid (ATF)-Acetone mix was a "home brew" mix of 50 - 50 automatic transmission fluid and acetone. Note the "home brew" was better than any commercial product in this one particular test. A local machinist group mixed up a batch and all now use it with equally good results. Note also that "Liquid Wrench" is about as good as "Kroil" for about 20% of the price.
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penetrating oil

had great results kroil

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