Spraying Diesel on Old Equipment?

[Dargo]

Honestly. Do you have nothing better to do than try to act superior on the net?!

Dude!!! You have a serious reading comprehension issue. Did I or did I not tell you in all caps to not believe me?! I challenged you to make yourself smarter, more intelligent through doing research on your own from sources you choose! I didn't even tell you where to look! If you think that makes me act superior, you have some major issues!

 

[DarkBlack]

Times like these... remind me of what I love about this site: A place for people to go with common interests in tractors. To share stories and wisdom. To help each other out with their problems with their tractors.
There's a lot of good info on this site: I'm glad to be part of it- honestly.
Just some tequilla and honesty talkin..

 

[lilranch2001]

I accidentally poured diesel on kudzu several years ago and it definitely didn't come close to killing it.

how does one go about ACCIDENTALLY pouring diesel on kudzu?

 

[D7E]

Looks like most people have had very good success at preserving their equipment so it can run longer with a fine spray of diesel. I think the multitute of experienced user posts proves that.

I'm more worried about the other things sprayed or squirted in the environment such as liquid wrench, or wd-40, or hair spray, or paint, or bug killer, or hornet spray, or mosquito killer, or pesticides, or herbicides, or fungicides, or ... yeh, you get the picture.

A couple of wacko poster(s) ( probably one, with multiple screen names) on this site definetly micro-focus and ignore the big picture

right on the money there i think

do we ever hear of how much damage drain cleaner /bleach /household detergents...the contraceptive pill etc are doing ....diesel and pesticides are a joke in comparison !..i'm sorry dargo but .."yawn"

 

[MikeD74T]

You'd be far better off, since you obviously have an internet connection, actually doing a little research. Science says that said equipment would have survived just as well, very likely better, if not illegally coated with a fuel. The multitude of posts that agree with something clearly wrong tells me something quite different. As I said, DO NOT believe me. You have an internet connection. Do some searches on preserving equipment by spraying or coating it with diesel fuel. When I know for a fact I'm right, with science backing me up, I don't budge an inch. To be blunt, it's a very poor idea. Sort of along the lines of physicians back in that time bleeding people to try to cure them. That wasn't such a good idea either.

How about a few links to your sources???????? MikeD74T

 

[Dargo]

YAWN!

Why don't you start by reading the story behind the invention of WD40. Hopefully you at least know that WD stands for "Water Displacing". In the turn of the century, we didn't have the products we have now and people, unknowingly, put diesel on equipment not shaded equipment thinking it would help, but discovered that the diesel either washed away quickly or, if there was only misty rain or high humidity, the diesel floated to the top and held the moisture against the steel.

Like I've said, the whole internet is at your fingertips. If you want to be so arrogant, stand up and do some research and prove me wrong. I've already done the research. As far as your "everybody has been doing it"; well, billions of flies eat poo each day. Does that make doing so right? ROFL!! There, the gauntlet is down. I've even given you many clues. If you're ticked, prove me wrong. If this illegal act works, there should be scads of pages touting how great it works, right?

 

[D7E]

you carry on and buy your overpriced products . I will continue to do what seems to work for me and millions of others .

 

[CTPhil]

I'm not stupid, I can see for myself what works and what doesn't. I don't need an expert to make it OK (or not OK). I figured out way back when I was a teenager that the only parts of my old car that never rusted were the parts that were sprayed by the normal leakage of oil.

A few years ago a friend who was helping me milk was visited by her coworker and an expert in cattle feeding. They stood a few feet from where I was hand milking, the expert explaining (not to me) that cows needed this much protein and that much carbohydrate that could only be achieved by scientifically formulated concentrate feeding or the animals just wouldn't survive. He was oblivious to his surroundings apparently, as I was milking healthy, productive animals that were fed only local grass and hay, just as I had for the last 20 years.

 

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[lilranch2001]

I never did find out how he ACCIDENTALY put deisal on kudzu