Ive seen a few comments on here advizing shooters to clean / dry out their mods with WD40 and similar , I was wondering if this could cause dieseling and blow a mod apart ? maybe the same could happen when oiling threads ?
WD40 isn't oil or lubricant as such, it's a water displacing fluid.
WD40 isn't oil or lubricant as such, it's a water displacing fluid.
And engines will also run on it ! so it will diesel under the right circumstances .
we regularly subject Mods to the expanding gases from an explosion, its their natural enviroment,its what they are designed for, how much extra is some WD40 going to add to the mix? (obviously if you totally fill the damn thing with a liquid you will come across that old saying "you cannot compress a liquid!") but a little bit isn't going to cause a problem.Ive seen a few comments on here advizing shooters to clean / dry out their mods with WD40 and similar , I was wondering if this could cause dieseling and blow a mod apart ? maybe the same could happen when oiling threads ?
we regularly subject Mods to the expanding gases from an explosion,
An explosion is a rapid increase in volume and release of energy in an extreme manner, usually with the generation of high temperatures and the release of gases. Supersonic explosions created by high explosives are known as detonations and travel via supersonic shock waves. Subsonic explosions are created by low explosives through a slower burning process known as deflagration.Powder doesn't explode, it burns. Also dieseling oil (or ignited in some other way) would burn, not explode.
Wd40 will definitely diesel under pressure alright which I can testify to having sprayed it down my HW80's transfer port many a long year ago, when you fired the rifle it would clear out any axcess oil then would diesel violently on the following shot, I thought it was cool at the time but the vibration and recoil could be felt through the trigger don't think it damaged the rifle but couldn't have been good for it either.
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