Faulty Spray cans increasing ?

[gstrom99]

You mean like these? They all came out of my own devices. By the way, Kirkland batteries are almost as bad, in my experience.

The expiration date on at least one of them is March 2000. After 20 years, I wouldn't complain about 'em leaking...

 

[jaxs]

Maybe it should be obvious, but what do you use that concoction for? As an aside, I'm constantly blown away by the wide range of expertise from people on this forum!

I transfer contents from gallon jug to a dispenser bottle for use much the same as I would PB Blaster and WD-40 but in greater quanities. I recently used about 30 oz freeing up a neighbor's Farmall engine seized from sitting outdoors and raining in overhead exhuast. Doesn't work any better than what's on store shelfs but save's a few bucks using what would otherwise be thrown away.
There's sometimes sprinklings of keyboard expertise but we try to have fun in spite of it.

 

[Sberry]

I noticed it in Kroil cans about 10 years ago, jacked up the price and cheapened the can.

 

[Jstpssng]

The expiration date on at least one of them is March 2000. After 20 years, I wouldn't complain about 'em leaking...

Actually it's March 2008 but still...

 

[ultrarunner]

Got me thinking that so far my favorite window cleaner has yet to disappoint...

Maybe it's he quality of the can?

 

[JasperFrank]

i do know that one should NEVER, EVER think that some how they can get to use that little bit of un- used product of the spray can. You think they are dead, and maybe you could just puncture the can and drain some of it's goodness out in a civilized manner..... Oh, no.... Disaster awaits you.

 

[jaxs]

Maybe it's he quality of the can?

More likly because you've always been a man of vision and refuse alowing that to become obscured.

 

[CADplans]

There is a BIG PLUS to this spray can mess,,
WD-40 type sprays changed from non-flammable propellant to a propane type propellant.
The result is that now, WD-40 type spray cans make EXCELLENT starting aid sprays for small engines.

The next time your mower will not start, give it a blast of a NEW can of WD-40
and watch the engine start right up!!

 

[jaxs]

Well they should never changed when it worked amd made me mad. I've since found better lubercants, bought a 1 Lb propane filler and been using that to start small engines and I;m not going back now.

 

[jyoutz]

That probably won't work any more either. I've got a bunch of spray bottles that no longer spray or even pump. Seems they don't like most of the solvents used. I buy WD-40 by the gallon. I also buy naphtha in 5-gallon pails as a solvent for cleaning adhesives and grease/oil off parts and making lanolin spray for tools. It's hard to find a good spray bottle these days.

Edit: And I also tried those re-usable spray cans. What a joke those are. The seals just swell with any contact with paint or solvents.

The best plastic spray bottles I have found are those sold by Harbor Freight.

 

[Tinhack]

The best plastic spray bottles I have found are those sold by Harbor Freight.

I'll give a few of those a try next time I get up to the big city.

 

[Fielding]

I promise I'm not nit picking,did you mean hvlp? I have all 3 types sprayers (all of them ancient). I love hvlp and have about worn mine out and been thinking about new airless advertised to handle fine spay jobs.

No airless, would not paint a car with one. But for spray can type jobs they are exactly whats required.

 

[Tinhack]

The best plastic spray bottles I have found are those sold by Harbor Freight.

Well, I was there today. Maybe they were out of the "best". The only spray bottles they had there were for water-based chemicals. It even said on the bottles (2-pack) they were not for solvent based liquids.

But I was able to pick up a few other needed items with a gift card so it wasn't a total loss.

 

[Texasmark]

I'm noticing that too and there is no noticeable exterior reason...just seem to run of propellent.

 

[JasperFrank]

I took me twenty years to see that i could just buy WD-40 by the gallon and then use a spray bottle. i can't even count the wasted cans I bought that were preloaded with a propellant and all those cans went in to the dump. i believe there is a wider market now for reusable, and re-fillable spray cans that can be recharged.

 

[jyoutz]

Well, I was there today. Maybe they were out of the "best". The only spray bottles they had there were for water-based chemicals. It even said on the bottles (2-pack) they were not for solvent based liquids.

But I was able to pick up a few other needed items with a gift card so it wasn't a total loss.

Maybe they no longer have those anymore

 

[ultrarunner]

Working in a Tool and Die shop we used permanent spray cans that worked well charged by compressed .

 

[jaxs]

Maybe they no longer have those anymore

That's probably right since they no longer had any of the other great tools when I checked.

 

[Tinhack]

i believe there is a wider market now for reusable, and re-fillable spray cans that can be recharged.

I tried a couple I got off Amazon. Those didn't work either. The top seal swelled up with any contact with paint or mild solvent. You couldn't get it back together to refill with air.

 

[LyHale]

The expiration date on at least one of them is March 2000. After 20 years, I wouldn't complain about 'em leaking...

The batteries pictured have been in the jar or several years. I keep them separate from batteries to be recycled because they remind me not to buy those brands, even though, in our area, they are the easier to find. The corroded Duracells and Kirklands in my photo weren't old when put in or taken out of the devices they'd been used in. I put new batteries in my devices. I don't mismatch brands. Now, I don't even mismatch battery batches. Even so, Duracell and Kirkland batteries tend to corrode. I haven't experienced the same problem with some other major brands.