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Is PB Blaster really this good?

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Ken in PA

12-13-2001 21:17:00




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I ran out to the garage 10 minutes before dinner tonight and figured I could get the carb off so after dinner I could pull the manifold. Well I thought I should at least put a socket on the manifold bolts because after all, I was already dirty right! I had been spraying them with PB for a week or so while I work on other things and all the nuts came off like I had just put them on finger tight!

So why did that happen? Is PB that good? Did Betty Ford think that I needed a break? Are these the easiest nuts on the tractor?

I was even thinking this may be proof that there is a God!

Or could it be that when you touch so many bolts the odds are that some of them will turn off rather than break off?

Any ideas?

Ken
8N (Betty Ford)

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8NRay

12-14-2001 21:26:16




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
I've used 'em all over the years. Everything that claims to desolve rust including LW. I bought a can of PB a few months ago after reading about someone using it. I thought it probably some more snake oil. I will now use nothing else. One example. I was trying to drive out the rusted in pin that holds the hyd lift arms in the yoke. I had hammered pretty hard on it and it wouldn't budge. Put PB on it and waited about an hour and tried again, still wouldn't budge. Gave up and decided I would do it another day when I could get the heat wrench out and work it properly. I went ahead and hooked up my box blade and began using it. A couple of days later I was replacing the blade with my shredder and happened to look at the arm and noticed the pin had almost fallen out. A little PB and some vibration action of the blade and it came loose. I was surprised and impressed. I use it alot now, just learn to be patient.

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jerry (AL)

12-14-2001 11:44:22




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
I was replacing a disk on a harrow a while back. Used a pipe wrench and a king Kong (man sized) cresent.

Wouldn't budge no matter what. Sprayed on the PB and still wouldn't budge. Came back a couple of hours later and came right off.

I think all these materials will work quite well but you have to give them a little time.



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Gaspump

12-14-2001 09:47:45




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
I have paid close attention to the songs of praise and/or testimonial-commercials for PB-Blaster on this site over the years. I was so impressed a couple of years ago that I rushed out and bought 6 spray cans of PB. The long and the short of it is that I used but one can of it before going back to Liquid Wrench in a bottle. My rust lothes Liquid Wrench much more than PB. I hit rust with L-W with teflon especially on parts that need huge heat such as top link yokes and it works great. No connection to either, just my observations over the years.

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bg

12-14-2001 09:15:12




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
I like it better than Kano Kroil, or Liquid Wrench, or WD-40. WE swapped out the springs on a Ford F-700 a few years ago. Couldn't break the shackles loose. Soaked them down with PB-Blaster and they broke free.



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Wildbill

12-14-2001 06:32:04




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
I have been using PB since I first heard of it and it is the best. My friends and I claim that if you spray enough of it at an engine it will start.My 8N sat in a shed in a dry stuck condition for about ten years. When I pulled it out I dropped it in gear and slid the rear tires across the cement floor. I removed the head and sprayed the top of the pistons with PB. I put my thumb on the first piston and rocked it, then the second, third, and fourth. I then reached down and turned the crank pulley by hand. Not a real badly stuck engine but it sure impressed me. I started dissassembling a 1914 6hp John Smyth gas engine in September and got the last piece, the piston, out last week. In the many cycles of oiling, heating, and beating, I have 5 cans of the stuff invested in this engine. This engine had not run since the twenties and not a single part would move when I got it. For lubricating mechanisms , firearms, etc, I consider it to be poor because all the oily film crawls off and disappears. PB is not a miracle in a can, but is THE BEST penetrating oil money can buy. Bill

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ZANE

12-14-2001 03:37:06




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
Anybody who knows about Roosamaster injection pumps will know what I mean when I say that they won't tolerate any foriegn material. Period!

My IH backhoe would not start so I took off the top of the injection pump (Don't try this at home) and saw that the throttle was stuck fast because somewhere in time the stand pipe tube in the tank where the return fuel goes had broken off and the line was letting junk off the bottom of the tank come back into the pump through the return line while the tractor was standing.
I vaccumed out all the crud I could with a Chinese pressure washer. (Blower with vaccum tube) and then blew out all the fuel. Then I sprayed in a generous amount of PB BLaster around the throttle shaft in the injection pump. I let it sit for a couple of hours and then went back and began to move the shaft back and forth while adding more PB Blaster until it would return under it's own spring power. I put it back together and it started right up thus saving me about $500.00 for a rebuild by the local injection pump rebuilders in Birmingham.
Now I need to drain the tank and replace the stand pipe in there so it won't repeat.

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TEX

12-14-2001 02:27:55




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
PB IS ONE OF THE BEST// ALSO YOU USED IT THE RIGHT WAY GIVING IT TIME TO REALLY WORK NEVER RUN OUT OF IT.



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Bythe way,

12-13-2001 22:06:35




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
Ken , are you anywhere near the fellow in Pa. who has the 60+ restored "N's"..... Randy



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Ken

12-14-2001 19:10:05




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 Re: Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Bythe way,, 12-13-2001 22:06:35  
No I don't think so? I'm gonna need to check a map and see where he is. I'm thinking he is out east of me but I don't know why I think that.

You know I have really been looking forward to having one tractor run some day soon and this guy has over 60! Not only lucky to have the tractors but imagine the wife that would allow it.....He has to be single?



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Randy in N.B.

12-13-2001 21:59:26




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 Re: Is PB Blaster really this good? in reply to Ken in PA, 12-13-2001 21:17:00  
Ken and Betty, it's past my bedtime here, so brain's gittin a little soggy, but if I remember right them's brass nuts...hence less corrosion and cementing on there! Either way, yes it is proof there is a God! Merry Christmas!



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