Uses for WD-40

ZARA

Registered User
13+ Amazing Uses for WD-40
WD-40 Uses - Amazing Ways to Use WD-40 | Reader's Digest

4. Exterminate roaches and repel insects

Don’t let cockroaches, insects, or spiders get the upper hand in your home. • Keep a can of WD-40 handy, and when you see a roach, spray a small amount directly on it for an instant kill. • To keep insects and spiders out of your home, spray WD-40 on windowsills and frames, screens, and door frames. Be careful not to inhale the fumes when you spray and do not do this at all if you have babies or small children at home.


5. Remove chewing gum from hair
It’s one of an adult’s worst nightmares: chewing gum tangled in a child’s hair. You don’t have to panic or run for the scissors. Simply spray the gummed-up hair with WD-40, and the gum will comb out with ease. Make sure you are in a well-ventilated area when you spray and take care to avoid contact with the child’s eyes.


9. Winterproof boots and shoes
Waterproof your winter boots and shoes by giving them a coat of WD-40. It’ll act as a barrier so water can’t penetrate the material. Also use WD-40 to remove ugly salt stains from boots and shoes during the winter months. Just spray WD-40 onto the stains and wipe with a clean rag. Your boots and shoes will look almost as good as new.


12. Keep wasps from building nests
Don’t let yellow jackets and other wasps ruin your spring and summer fun. Their favorite place to build nests is under eaves. So next spring mist some WD-40 under all the eaves of your house. It will block the wasps from building their nests there.


26. Remove stickers from glass
What were the manufacturers thinking when they put that sticker on the glass? Don’t they know how hard it is to get off? When soap and water doesn’t work and you don’t want to ruin a fingernail or risk scratching delicate glass with a blade, try a little WD-40. Spray it on the sticker and glass, wait a few minutes, and then use a no-scratch spatula or acrylic scraper to scrape the sticker off. The solvents in WD-40 cause the adhesive to lose its stickiness.
 

Bay_Kat

Tropical
#12 is the best, I wait until dusk when they are all in the nest, spray it, the stuff kills them instantly and the nest falls to the ground.
 

ZARA

Registered User
#12 is the best, I wait until dusk when they are all in the nest, spray it, the stuff kills them instantly and the nest falls to the ground.

Thanks for sharing! I am allergic to wasps. Found out the hard way few years back when I stepped on a nest of ground wasps. :cds:
Then learned I am allergic to H1 blockers (antihistamine) at the same time. :doh:It was NO fun. Epipen FTW.
 

Im_Me

Active Member
I knew WD-40 was useful..... I just had to pop in here to see how it was useful in "parenting and children". I must say I'm relieved that is isn't. :coffee:
 

Bay_Kat

Tropical
My husband got the list in his email. One of the uses was cleaning a toilet bowl, had to try it, worked great. We have really hard water here and always seem to get a water line in the bowl, WD is supposed to keep that from coming back, so far so good.
 
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