WD-40\u00ae Smart Straw\u00ae Aerosols (CARB Compliant) 12oz Spray Can<\/p>\n
Aerosols protect, clean, and lubricate thousands upon thousands of items. They also feature a permanently attached straw that sprays two ways\u2014up for a precision stream and down for regular spray action.<\/p>\n
n\u00a01953<\/strong>, a fledgling company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of three set out to create a line of rust-prevention solvents and degreasers for use in the aerospace industry.<\/p>\n Working in a small lab in San Diego, California, it took them 40 attempts to get the water displacing formula worked out. But they must have been really good, because the original secret formula for\u00a0WD-40\u00ae<\/sub>\u00a0-which stands for Water Displacement perfected on the 40th try\u2014is still in use today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Convair, an aerospace contractor, first used\u00a0WD-40\u00ae<\/sub>\u00a0to protect the outer skin of the Atlas Missile from rust and corrosion. The product actually worked so well that several employees snuck some\u00a0WD-40\u00ae<\/sub>\u00a0cans out of the plant to use at home.<\/p>\n A few years following WD-40\u00ae’s first industrial use, Rocket Chemical Company founder Norm Larsen experimented with putting WD-40\u00ae into aerosol cans, reasoning that consumers might find a use for the product at home as some of the employees had. The product made its first appearance on store shelves in San Diego in 1958.<\/p>\n The most interesting piece of WD-40\u00ae Smart Straw\u00ae Aerosols (CARB Compliant) 12oz Spray Can history is the uses for the product, now numbering in the thousands. Over the years, thousands of WD-40\u00ae users have written testimonial letters to the company sharing their often unique, if sometimes just plain weird, uses for the product\u2014many of which are shared in other parts of this Web site.<\/p>\n The uses include everything from silencing squeaky hinges and removing road tar from automobiles to protecting tools from rust and removing adhesive labels. But they get a lot crazier than that. Some of the more interesting stories include the bus driver in Asia who used WD-40\u00ae to remove a python snake, which had coiled itself around the undercarriage of his bus, or when police officers used WD-40\u00ae to remove a naked burglar trapped in an air conditioning vent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WD-40\u00ae Smart Straw\u00ae Aerosols (CARB Compliant) 12oz Spray Can Aerosols protect, clean, and lubricate thousands upon thousands of items. They also feature a permanently attached straw that sprays two ways\u2014up for a precision stream and down for regular spray action. n\u00a01953, a fledgling company called Rocket Chemical Company and its staff of three set out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10049,"template":"","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"product_brand":[670],"product_cat":[513,768],"product_tag":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/10048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=10048"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvpartsexpress.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=10048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}