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It acts as a lubricant, rust preventive, penetrant and moisture displacer. There are specialized products that perform better than WD-40 in many of these uses, but WD-40's flexibility has given it fame as a jack of all trades. [3] It is a successful product to this day, with steady growth in net income from $27 million in 2008 to $70.2 million ...
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.
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 ...
WD-40 is a famous name, but its stock price is just way too high to buy.
Barry died at age 84 on July 3, 2009, due to pulmonary fibrosis in a skilled nursing center in La Jolla in San Diego, California. [5] He was survived by his wife, the former Marian A. Irving; a daughter, Deborah B. Faneros of Camarillo, California, two sons, Stephen A. Barry of Escondido and Randy P. Barry of San Diego, and four grandsons. [1]
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The residue left by WD-40 on the keys would be far worse than the "human grease" it is purported to remove. As mentioned earlier in the article, the smell of WD-40 lingers, and contact with the skin is to be avoided. WD-40 should under no circumstances be used to clean a screen.
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