Found something PB blast is good for

[old]

Well I have been working on a NH271 baler, more in the implantment forum in a little bit. Any how I was out there for say an hour or more banging on it etc. When I saw a wasp fly by. I started looking around and here was a nest not 3 foot form me, if I get stung I go to the hospital. Any how it has 6 or 7 wasps on it so I pick up the PB I had there and spray them and I'm ready to run. Well 2 flew off but hit the ground fast and the others just drop off dead. Sure glad they didn't get mean or I might have had a bad day
Hobby farm

 

[Peabo]

I have never tried the stuff, Is it any good as a penetrating oil? I use to use Break Away but can"t find it anymore...Lots of things have many uses, Just for info, Castrol engine deagreaser will tee off a snake such that he will run out of his hiding place...

-Peabo

 

[MF#1]

Have used starting ether with good results for killing wasps.

 

[old]

PB works ok but if I could get tranny fluid in a spray bottle/can I would use it since it seems to work better but since I can't find tranny fluid that way I use PB
Hobby farm

 

[old]

Yep it works well and also carb cleaner but the PB was at hand so I used it.
Hobby farm

 

[Peabo]

The old feller that I used to share crop chicken-farmin with used to make up a mixture of kerosene/diesel and motor oil in a pump-up garden sprayer. We used this to lube up the house cleaner when we got done. I wonder if something like that could be done with tranny fluid... I don't know, just an idea, not very portable but good around the shop... I will have to try the tranny fluid

-Peabo

 

[old]

I use tranny fluid in stuck engines all the time and so far out of say 20 engines only 2 haven;t popped free. I also use it a lot of things like bolts that I can drop into it and center links that I can fill with tranny fluid

 

[Anonymous-0]

hey old, if you could find a way to get tranny fluid thinner so it would spray out in a spray bottle, that might be interesting. WOuld paint thinner work? some PB blaster mixed with tranny fluid??

 

[Anonymous-0]

It is also the best there is to remove asphalt oil. Spray it on, let it set a little and wash it off.

 

[Anonymous-0]

A recent Home Shop Machinist made up rusty samples and compared various brews. Their best was a mix of ATF and acetone. That took the least force to separate the rusted pieces. But what ATF these days? Their picture showed a bottle of power steering fluid...

Gerald J.

 

[Don-Wi]

It's all we use around out farm anymore. Works really good to loosen up rusty parts, just let 'em soak for a couple minutes before putting a wrench on them. WD-40 is no comparison.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

[Anonymous-0]

That is funny, I too realized when I was kid, that most anything in a spray can or even high pressure water will cause em some grief and usually make em go away. Whatever was handy at the time I like ether, but if you don't get em good, a direct hit, they live and come back, + it don't bother the nest, it evaporates and they come back, but it's a lot cheaper than the wasp spray.

Another decent industrial penetrant I thought does a good job, is Free-All by Gasoila, it's $10.00 a can, but you don't use much, a can will last you quite a while, sure reeks of some volatile oraganic compounds, funny how you don't see a lot of people carrying it though, kind of like Kroil from Kano labs, like all of them, they work to a certain extent, but this one seems a tad better than PB and others and it does penetrate in many instances, again, another matter of opinion and preference as well, just one more to try.
Free-All

 

[Anonymous-0]

Turpentine and atf freed up a stuck engine for me.Mineral spirits would be a good thinner also.Cost wise kerosene would be the best choice now.Price is way up on all solvents.

 

[Mike M]

You can buy bottles that you dump your own fluid in and then pressurize with air compressor. I got a small one from J.C. Whitney I think it is called a jenni can ? At work they have 1 qt. size for brake cleaner.

 

[railhead]

I keep diesel in spray bottles setting around in summer for the same reason. Knocks them to the ground where they die in seconds.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Shame on you, those poor little wasps, they don't have any choice coming into this cruel world nor did they do anything other than live near where you are you big meanie. Did you ever think that every one of those wasps has a father, a mother, and probably a whole bunch of brothers and sisters and cousings and uncles and aunts too. The grandparent wasps are probably dead already, you more than likely killed them off last summer. Well, make it up today and hug an ant hill or something.

 

[Andy Motteberg]

old is not a meanie, those wasps are meanies.

 

[Don-Wi]

Never been stung have you? I can bet you would want ehm do die troo if your life was at risk like Old's is because of a medical condition. I myself haven't been stung in a few years, but last time I was I swelled up like you wouldn't believe. I'm pretty sure I would have a bad reaction as well.

They can all die for all I care.

Donovan from Wisconsin

 

[HAPPY DEERE]

i would be suprised to find something pb blaster isnt good for

 

[Andy Motteberg]

PB Blaster works great as penetrating oil.

 

[Anonymous-0]

It tastes awful!