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People have been cleaning their ears with cotton swabs for years. What other tools are being inadvertently used wrong? (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by ediculous@feddit.nl to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One easy rule of thumb is if you're looking to lubricate something WD40 is never the correct choice. It's not a lubricant, it's for cleaning/breaking shit loose.

[–] catfish@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only thing worse than people using WD-40 instead of a better product, are the mental gymnastics performed by people pretending a product which is 35% oil and sold as a lubricant, actually isn't.

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

If you want to use it as a lubricant go ahead. Just be prepared to have to do it more often than you would with a more suitable product.