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Re: [a/s] WD-40 - & unlocking the 'locked' door



I think Jerry S. says it perfectly "Keep it's limitations in mind"  I 
appreciate all the replies about my WD-40 post.

BTW, WD-40 did unlock a van door that we thought had a broken off key in it 
because we couldn't even push a key into it.  It was an old van we had 
purchased (we called it Trusty Rusty) and always had to unlock the passenger 
side from inside until I tried the WD-40 trick.

The airstream manual says to use Graphite in the doorlocks.

We looked it up in the manual when we went to the trailer storage lot 
yesterday to see how badly we had parked the trailer in the rain the week 
before.  Wasn't bad.  It was a beautiful sunshiny day and we, of course, 
walked around looking at the other a/s' in the place.  There are at least 7 
of all vintages and sizes.  A couple of vintage small Land yachts - one of 
which had the door hanging open.  There were no cars and no one near it so 
Tom went over and knocked and called and then peeked in.  He said it is more 
or less gutted and looked as though it is being worked on so we hoped the 
door was just left open to air and dry it out.  We're supposed to have no 
rain this weekend.  There was a new Safari there - prob 25ft.  I get really 
excited when I see other airstreams - hope I don't cause us to wreck if we 
see one on the raod!

-Norma