Why I Keep Three Different WD-40 Brand Products Stashed Around My House

The Classic WD-40 Product is a versatile tool for general DIY duties like displacing moisture, de-squeaking, corrosion-inhibiting and lubing. The formula hasn’t changed, but today’s WD-40 Multi-Use Product is even more useful now that the delivery system has evolved beyond simple cans and a little red straw. Meet the compact Precision Pen, bendable EZ-REACH straw and high-volume Big Blast nozzle.

WD-40 Brand has evolved its breadth of offerings, too. Sprays like WD-40 Specialist® Gel Lube work great where you need long-lasting lubrication on metals and machinery. The fast-acting WD-40 Specialist Penetrant is my go-to for soaking rusty bolts before I try to put a socket on them. The Specialist line runs deep, offering job-specific formulas for just about any lubrication need.

But for general utility and daily quick fixes, the Classic WD-40 Product is hard to beat. That’s why you’ll find it with different types of distribution systems all over my house and garage.

WD-40 Precision Pen

I keep a little cup next to my bed that holsters my everyday-carry items: A small box cutter, a black permanent marker, a small flashlight, and a WD-40 Precision Pen.

OK, if I’m honest, there’s nothing I carry every day—I don’t even leave my house every day. But when I’m not wearing sweatpants, you better believe I’m ready to rock and roll opening packages, marking things, peering into dark places and doling out tiny drips of the WD-40 Multi-Use Product.

My box cutter may look a little wimpy compared to the Daniel Boone hunting knives I see hanging off my neighbors’ belts when we’re in line to buy frozen pizza at the gas station. But while I may be backwater these days, I do more slicing open of cardboard boxes than dead animals.

Anyway, the Precision Pen is similarly small but mighty. It looks like something you might use to get coffee stains off your tie, but it actually deploys little dabs of the Classic WD-40 Product with precise control and ease.

I had great success peeling duct tape residue off my Honda Civic’s fender with one of these last year. It’s very good at getting rid of small bits of corrosion, residue or discoloration from metal and glass. But I also find myself reaching for the Precision Pen when I pull a dirty old bolt out of something (it’s awesome for chasing threads) or when I go to use one of the tools my father-in-law left out in the yard. A little dab on a metal contact point can free something up in short order.

The Precision Pen won’t solve all your problems, but it’s so satisfying to use when you’re out and about and find something that needs a little light lubrication.

WD-40 EZ-Reach

WD-40 EZ-REACH features a flexible 8-inch straw and is one of my favorite inventions ever. Instead of a precarious little red straw that you’ll eject to the darkest corners of your crawlspace, the EZ-REACH straw is both highly flexible and robust.

You can bend it any which way, and more importantly, it’ll hold its shape while you point and spray. It’s absolutely indispensable when you’re trying to get around the hoses and hangers you’ll find in a car’s engine bay or under the chassis. Any time you need to get the Classic WD-40 Product to a spot that’s tough to reach or fit an entire can near, I recommend using EZ-REACH.

Like many tinkerers, I always keep some of the Classic WD-40 Product among my other garage chemicals on a shelf near the door. Between my personal junk yard of old cars and my father-in-law’s small farm next door, I feel like I’m constantly trying to extract moisture from engine bays that have been outside or get sap stains off bodywork—both of which are great uses for the Classic WD-40 Product.

WD-40 Big Blast

If you want even more coverage to spray down larger objects, the brand’s WD-40 Big Blast product has you covered. It’s the classic product with a wide-area spray nozzle, designed to deliver product quickly and efficiently over large areas.

While the Precision Pen is great for using indoors and EZ-REACH is the best for getting into hard-to-reach spots, a can with the Big Blast nozzle is great on bigger jobs, outdoor projects and especially anywhere big metal tools have to go to work.

The Classic WD-40 Product is a great product for getting heavy dirt off of shovels and other earth-moving tools. It also inhibits rust and helps muck and mud fling off the metal much more easily on your next use. You could also use it to dislodge grass from clogged mower blades.

My stash of Big Blast cans is near the exterior door of my garage, with my electric weed cutter and other things that spend a lot of time outside. After using tools like shovels, post-hole diggers, tampers, and other hand-held heavy metals that get used around the property, I like to hit ’em with a douse of Big Blast, this makes for an easy and quick job while protecting my tools from the elements. 

I’ll even hit the lower sections of my UTV with the stuff once in a while. Remember, the Classic Product has a variety of uses, but it’s not a comprehensive lubricant. This is why WD-40 Brand created the Specialist line. My point is … the Classic WD-40 product does a nice job of lubricating and de-mudding the buggy’s underside, but if you need a heavy-duty solution that’s job-specific, visit www.wd40.com/specialist/.

More Than 2,000+ Uses

With four project cars, home-made mechanical inventions in different stages of completion, a house that’s perpetually being renovated and a few acres, and a spouse who is always making me landscape, I find myself going through cans of WD-40 Multi-Use Product pretty regularly. Now that the brand offers a variety of delivery systems, my supplies are lasting longer, plus I’m no longer wasting product due to overspray.

The WD-40 Multi-Use Product is not the perfect solution for absolutely everything, but it does a darn good job of almost anything you could ask of a quick-use corrosion inhibitor lubricant. You don’t have to take my word for it—the crowd-sourced list of uses for the Classic WD-40 Product is always growing.

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