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1. 
   YesMaam27577 | Jul 17, 2008 05:59pm | #1

   Use them for a few hours each day, five days a week, 50 or more weeks per year, for the next couple of decades.

   Works for just about any hand tool that needs loosened up.

   Politics is the antithesis of problem solving.

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   gfretwell | Jul 17, 2008 08:09pm | #2

   WD40

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   JTC1 | Jul 17, 2008 09:40pm | #3

   Hung out on fish boats in a previous life.  Tool rust was a never ending battle.

   Had the best luck with WD40, spray the pin, spray in between the jaws at the pivot point.

   Work the cutters open and closed multiple times. Spray again.

   Work the cutters open and closed some more "torquing" the handles sideways - you are trying to put pressure on all sides of the pivot pin producing a grinding motion.

   Repeat as necessary until the WD40 drips out basically clean.

   Then give the pliers a little bit of 3-in-1. The WD40 will evaporate and provide basically no lubrication.

   Good luck.

   Jim

   Never underestimate the value of a sharp pencil or good light.
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   maddog3 | Jul 18, 2008 12:19am | #4

   see if you can get your hands on some molybdenum disulfide sometimes just called molydisulfide

   ....then heat your cutters till they are just too hot to touch, dip the tool in the moly and then work into the joint, do this a few times and your tools will never stiffen on you ever again, wipe the excess off the surface or, if you don't care how they look, leave the stuff on until it hardens on the surface, presto !! instant corrosion protection

   its $$$ but it works and has a temp range of about.... -100ºF > 1000ºF

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5. 
   Boats234 | Jul 18, 2008 01:34am | #5

   CX is the gnats azzz.

   Once you use CorrosionX you will scoff and turn your nose up to the

   inferior class of WD40 substitutes. At around $12 a can you will guard and use

   sparingly, but you will become a convert.

   http://www.corrosionx.com

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   Catskinner | Jul 18, 2008 03:25am | #6

   http://www.howeslube.com/

   Howe's is the best I've found. We keep a can on both service trucks, the OTR tractor, and the water truck, and a few cans in the shop. It consistently works when nothing else does.

   Available at fuel terminals, most good truckstops, and I see on the website, at TravelCenters of America. There is also a place on the website you can type in what state and it will tell you where to buy.

   http://www.kanolabs.com

   I know some aircraft mechanics who like this, too.
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   maddog3 | Jul 18, 2008 02:01pm | #7

   yeah that Kroil is great stuff too !.

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7. 
   LeeLamb | Jul 18, 2008 02:36pm | #8

   I'd use Aero-Kroil and then if they are still stiff, soak them in kerosene overnight.  Work them open-and-close and they should loosen up.

   Another favourite of mine is Trust-It, harder to find, but rounds out the arsenal of penetrants/lubricants. Try here: 

   http://www.autosolutionsproducts.com/Products/Aerosols