Miserableolgit wrote:

Ok, it's turned cooler outside but it isn't that cold.

Add a bit of white spirit but not too much - aim to thin it until it's the consistency of runny custard. The trouble with heating it is that unless you are using it in a warm atmosphere the liquid cools as soon as it leaves the sprayer, gets cooler as it travels through the air and even more-so when it hits cold metal. Years ago I made up a container with an inbuilt heating element into which I'd pour the Waxoyl and bring up to working temperature before transferring into my spray gear. However it was a faff and thinning with white spirit [but not too much] to suit the ambient temperatures is just as if not more effective.

Keep in mind that this stuff is flammable so do take precautions!

Seriously, as I've must have said a hundred times before this has to be one of the most fully covered subjects on the Land Rover forums so you are honestly going to do yourself a favour to spend some time Googling the subject so you can approach it armed with the benefit of experience and findings of others. There should really be no need to keep regurgitating the same stuff every few weeks or days

Totally agree MOG about the recurant topics. I've been looking at this forum now for nearly a year and its amazing how something gets fully covered...then a few weeks go by...then the same question gets asked again only to be fully covered for the umpteenth time !

But I love it as I'm learning all the time and everyone has something interesting or informative to contribute. And as my missus chides when yet again she sees me looking at Def2 'you're all just a bunch of middle aged fuddy duddys with nothing better to do'

XS Pete wrote:

I applied a shedload of Waxoyl to my MY11 90 before Zag became our resident anti-corrosion expert,

 Steve.
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It seems poor old MOG isn't getting the recognition he deserves

Zagato wrote:

It seems poor old MOG isn't getting the recognition he deserves, don't forget he's been waxoyling motors for years

Oooh aaaar, the first one I recall [in my dreams] was some peculiar cobbled together hotch potch of parts from a surplus MB or GPW and Rover parts bin, damned funny looking thing with a steering wheel slap in the middle it had too. Was a bit like them Jeep things those Yank boys used to cut about the lanes in during the War, them and their damned nylons and chewing gum, they used to pull all the girls. Back then of course there where only the old boys in the pub who were more used to shrinking iron tyres on tumbrels and none of this going 'online' as they calls it and endlessly quizzing all in sundry about how to do this or that for a few months and then being given the title of 'expert' for doing so  Steve.
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Miserableolgit wrote:

going 'online' as they calls it and endlessly quizzing all in sundry about how to do this or that for a few months and then being given the title of 'expert' for doing so

Shame on you lot for calling me an expert....

The good ole days before the newfangled web



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Zagato wrote:

They still have to have the Dinitrol logo on the stuff they sell to the MOD MOD won't accept it without the logo....

I'm surprised! In all my years in 'the Mob' there were very few POL (petrol oil & lubricants) products that had brand names on them. Yes smaller items (Araldite. Ambersil greases and Electrolube products for example) but most other items over a litre came in a plain coloured container with a Military code on! (for example OM15 which denoted it was an oil which was of mineral derivitive etc. etc.) There was however a Defence Standard record known as 'Def Stan' that you could enter or look up the code on and it would give you the manufacturer, and all the details and limits of the product!

Basically I believe (probably wrongly) that if 'all and sundry' knew exactly what it was and how good it was it would be more likely to be 'half inched' and used on God knows what for personal use! I do know that PX32 was brown waxoyl though and could 'theoretically' be utilised on your own vehicle(s) but of course I never ever would have dreamed..........  If you go through life with your head in the sand....all people will see is an ar5e!!

Treat every day as if it is your last....one day you will be right!!