Your right Jim Legg, I should not gripe about WD-40. The good Lord knows it put lots of food on my families table.
As a gunsmith with a young family, before I knew that it was good for me that customers abused their guns and made me money.
I would get upset at them for bring in their Autoloading shot guns that they had "sprayed down and put away" after the last hunting season. Now they went to get ready for a little duck shooting and found they could no longer open the action.
The worst of these was always the Browning A-5's and the Remington clones of the A-5.
Nor should I have felt bad about the tang areas of rifle stocks that went soft from the WD soaks.
Heck, I thought I was the only one on the planet that hated the stuff, cause when I would tell the customers were there problems came from, they would look at me with the expression on their faces of blasphemy had been shouted in their presents!
Heck I still get that reaction today.
There are two products in this world that I know to be the most overrated and both of them have banana oil in them. Hoppe #9 and WD-40.(Could the love affair have anything to do with that?)
This is the first time in my life I found anybody that did not think the sun rose and shined on WD-40!
I've wondered for years about the continued love affair the public has for the stuff, but when I was a kid no household would be without "3 in one oil", either.
50 years ago I thought that WD-40 was the best thing to come down the pike. 40 years ago, I knew better!
