Mouse Milk spray

[jeffmoss26]

Has anyone heard of/used this? Someone was using the term interchangeably with WD-40, and having never heard of the product, I had to look it up.

http://www.mousemilk.com/

Thoughts?

 

[Highbeam]

I've often heard wd-40 referred to as "weazle-piss"

 

[jeffmoss26]

I refuse to use WD-40, but if there is something out there that is decent I'd be willing to try it. I use LPS1, Kroil, PB Blaster mainly.

 

[nolimits76]

I've often heard wd-40 referred to as "weazle-piss"

Love it. I used to work with a guy about 30+ years older and had sayings like that for everything under the sun.

Apparently you can milk mice...that Gregory Focker was a smart guy....

 

[KellyfromVA]

I've used 'Mouse Milk' for freeing frozen or rusty hardware as a penetrating lube for years, just in a small bottle not a spray. It's really not intended to be used as a lubricant like WD40 or PB Blaster. MM works where no other penetrating lubes fail. A little bit goes a long way due to the cost.

 

[coyotejake]

I refuse to use WD-40, but if there is something out there that is decent I'd be willing to try it. I use LPS1, Kroil, PB Blaster mainly.

Try Fluid Film. It's great stuff!

 

[jeffmoss26]

I have some of that also.

 

[fpagano]

When I worked for the airlines, a lot of guys swore by Mouse Milk. My company just used Kroil so thats what we had. I did manage to get a bottle of Mouse Milk from a guy at work I bought my second roll-away(used) from Haven’t tried it yet though.

 

[zkling]

Yes, I was duped, or so I thought by a co-worker one time. Thought he was joking around with me "Mouse Milk" penetrating oil. OK sure, like that exists. Had to eat my crow on that one. It does work good, but for the price and availability there are other options out there IMHO.

Comparing it to WD-40 is a far stretch.

 

[Clik]

Many of these products are mostly overpriced hype. Many are pretty damned close to what you burn in your car at $3.50 per gallon and they sell you a little can of it for (what?) SIXTEEN TIMES THAT!

I once read the MSDS for a commercial abrasive cleaner somewhat like Comet or Ajax and it was composed of 99% silica and calcium carbonate. Insert Sam Kinison Here: "THIS IS S-A-N-D".. Buy it by the ton and sell it by the ounce. What a racket.

I now make many of my own products for personal use. Gun cleaning fluid was one of the last I made. For the price I was paying for a little bottle I can have gallons.

 

[Mooniac]

Mouse Milk is used in the small aircraft industry to lubricate exhaust slip joints, FWIW.

 

[DodgeMech]

A canadian guy I watch on the youtube swears by it...i have no personal experience though

 

[mmack66]

I used to have a small squeeze bottle, but I have never seen/used the spray version.

I used when I was working on a 1969 Toyota Land Cruiser, and it did a pretty good job of freeing up rusty bolts and such.

 

[Josh McBuk]

I read somewhere that at 50/50 mix of acetone and atf is a far better penetrant than most aerosol penetrants. Haven't tried it yet.

 

[FOWLER]

I read somewhere that at 50/50 mix of acetone and atf is a far better penetrant than most aerosol penetrants. Haven't tried it yet.

That's what I use and it works great just have to use a quality can or bottle to apply it or the acetone will evaporate. If that won't get it then if possible I use a small torch and candle wax.

 

[Mandres]

Many of these products are mostly overpriced hype. Many are pretty damned close to what you burn in your car at $3.50 per gallon and they sell you a little can of it for (what?) SIXTEEN TIMES THAT!

I once read the MSDS for a commercial abrasive cleaner somewhat like Comet or Ajax and it was composed of 99% silica and calcium carbonate. Insert Sam Kinison Here: "THIS IS S-A-N-D".. Buy it by the ton and sell it by the ounce. What a racket.

I now make many of my own products for personal use. Gun cleaning fluid was one of the last I made. For the price I was paying for a little bottle I can have gallons.

I've always wondered about that. It's ridiculously hard to get a straight answer about mixing up your own lubricants/penitrants/solvents and I feel like most of these wonder products are just marketing. As in "watch out, don't step in the marketing".

At the same time, chemistry is dangerous and I'm wary about experimenting. Do you have any good recipes? It seems like kerosene is the base for a lot of different products.

 

[Clik]

Look at the product's Material Safety Data Sheets. Some foreign countries (apparently) require more disclosure in their MSDS than in the USA which seems to allow proprietary protection of ingredients.

 

[noslocars]

We used mouse milk for years on our jet engines. We have since switched to kroil because it flat out works better.

 

[JakeKohl]

WD40 is mostly fish oil.

 

[Ed ke6bnl]

That's what I use and it works great just have to use a quality can or bottle to apply it or the acetone will evaporate. If that won't get it then if possible I use a small torch and candle wax.

that all I use now.

 

[Jbizzle]

MouseMilk is pretty common in the aviation industry. Every where I have worked from military aircraft to mom & pop shops usually have a bottle laying around somewhere. Good for lubing up hinges and engine control linkages.

I seem to recall the label used to say "specifically formulated for aviation applications"

 

[Clik]

"specifically formulated for aviation applications". I suspect it's either a marketing ploy to impress the average Joe who thinks everything aviation is high tech or the aviation industry doesn't want any possible fuel contamination and Mouse Milk is pretty close to the kerosene that is used for jet fuel anyway. Most jet fuel is kerosene and in some really cold regions it contains kerosene and gasoline.

 

[56vette461]

Mouse milk was used on the control valves of turbo chargers in aircraft applications. It does not totally dissipate under heat and helps the valve operate in all conditions. My experience was with the turbo charged engine used in the Cessna 182 TRG single engine aircraft. The turbo valve always wanted to stick when the metal became dry from exhaust heat. MM would keep working freely with periodic applications. That was 20 years ago and I am sure there modern products that are as effective, but I still keep MM and Miracle Oil around the shop.