Comment by 1970-01-01
24 days ago
It is an excellent temporary lubricant and is the preferred lubricant when installing or removing rubber hoses.
24 days ago
It is an excellent temporary lubricant and is the preferred lubricant when installing or removing rubber hoses.
Temporary is useless and undesirable except for vanishing few applications except things like missiles that it was originally designed for and erroneously cargo-culted as magical missile oil. Sewing oil and similar thin oils stick around longer.
Silicone-based lubricants persist in contact with rubber. Water or soap and water is safer and cheaper for rubber hoses for manipulation.
Just don't make the mistake of routinely inhaling or dipping one's hands in toxic compounds like MEK, carbon tet, TCE, and gasoline+TEL that my dad or grandpa did cumulatively because some of the cancers and other conductions are awful yet avoidable. Petroleum distillates are literally petrochem shit.