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The Super W-9/WD-9 was produced in 1953 with greater torque. [17] [18] [19] The predecessor to the W-9 was the McCormick-Deering W-40, a bigger version of the International W-30 with a six-cylinder engine, which was itself a wide-front-axle version of the Farmall F-30. A diesel-engine version was available, the WD-40.
WD-40's formula is a trade secret. [17] The original copy of the formula was moved to a secure bank vault in San Diego in 2018. [18] To avoid disclosing its composition, the product was not patented in 1953, and the window of opportunity for patenting it has long since closed.
Former WD-40 headquarters in San Diego. The WD-40 Company, originally the Rocket Chemical Company, is an American manufacturer of household and multi-use products, including its signature brand, WD-40, as well as 3-In-One Oil, Lava, Spot Shot, X-14, Carpet Fresh, GT85, 1001, Solvol, 2000 Flushes and No Vac. [2] It is based in San Diego, California.
WD-40 is known for its thousands of uses, but there are a few times that you should avoid using the product. The post 5 Times You Should Never Use WD-40 appeared first on Reader's Digest.
John Steven Barry (August 31, 1924 – July 3, 2009) was an American business executive who popularized WD-40, a water-displacing spray and solvent that had been created in the 1950s for use in the space program and spread its use in the consumer market.
DAS Air Cargo (IATA code WD) Wardair (defunct IATA code WD) WD-40 Company, manufacturer of household and multi-use products, well known for its signature brand, WD-40. Western Digital, a computer storage manufacturer; Western Economic Diversification Canada, a Canadian government agency; Wikidata, a Wikimedia Foundation collaborative online project
In past years, the report has ranked diets from No. 1 to No. 40 or so, with the top-ranked diet winning the proverbial gold medal, so to speak, while judges banned diets at the bottom of the list ...
He was born in Chicago. [2]Larsen is sometimes credited with inventing the WD-40 formula in 1953 but this is not certain. The WD-40 company website and other books and newspapers credit him [3] [4] [5] but according to Iris Engstrand, a historian of San Diego and California at the University of San Diego, it was actually Iver Norman Lawson (also an engineer born in Chicago at around the same ...