Genetically I should be mechanically minded. My father was a brilliant car mechanic and my sister is amazing. Dorothy is tall, elegant and posh. Everything has to be just so, and her speech doesn't relax into the popular idiom as mine does from time to time. Yet give her a ball of string and a screwdriver and she will keep many things going until an expert is reached - and without breaking an immaculately polished fingernail or getting oil on a silk blouse as she does it. I am the exception and just drift through life thinking nice thoughts and generally doing things my way, although I do manage fairly well. With posidrive and flat screwdrivers, a ...  Read the complete review

This summer I took my children for a week’s holiday in Dorset, not far from the Devon border. We were lucky with the weather and spent much of our time on the beach. It was a totally relaxing holiday only slightly marred by the oil washed up onto the beach from the cargo ship Napoli which was beached off Branscombe on the Devon coast in January 2007. Despite my nagging to avoid the tar we still managed to get our trainers, legs, towels and various other items of clothing/ bodily places spotted with oil. Off I went into the local village hardware store for some help. “Do you have anything to…” I started to ask. No need to finish the sentence. “Get tar ...  Read the complete review

A little while ago we had a good tidy out of all the boat lockers and the store cupboard at home and found we had accumulated no less than 4 cans of that magic spray WD 40. Although this might sound a lot, the environment in which we live and work often calls for a quick spray of this multi talented, penetrating oil. I had a look on the web site to find out some more information to add apart from our own experience over 30 years, of using WD to loosen, protect and clean various boaty and other things in our lives. I found lots of info but not what I wanted which is what are it's ingredients, that's a secret! WD stands for water displacement and the 40 is ...  Read the complete review

Everyone must have heard of something called WD40 ... no, it's not a tribute band to the 80's group UB40, nor is it a new name that this coalitions call the unemployment system. It is in fact possibly one of the most useful little inventions that has graced the world of sticky bolts and squeaky hinges. What is this WD40 I hear you ask?, (or is that just the voices in my head at it again..?). Well, firstly, here's a bit of one of those facts that may be classed as 'useless information', although it may come in handy one day in a pub quiz or something... (This information was found after a quick search on the internet)... WD40 ...  Read the complete review

I've been aware of WD-40 so long it's as familiar to me as a chair, or a tree, it's a fact of life. It was my dads cure all and now it's mine. WD-40 was first sold to the public in 1958,and was initially developed in a small lab located in Calafornia for the aeronautics industry to prevent corrosion. Perfected by Norm Larsen the name was literally what it was listed as in the 'Lab book'. Water Displacement 40th attempt. If you'd like to know a little more about the history of the product you could look here http://www.wd40.com/about-us/history/ or just Google it yourself. I always have a can of this product at home, sometimes more than one. ...  Read the complete review