Product Celebrates 50 Years

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Something Old, Something New Product Celebrates 50 Years With Lots OfNew Tips (NAPSA)}—Here’s some good news for homeowners who wantto take a more hands-on approach to home projects. Anew Website is available to provide tips and instructions on demand. In celebration of its 50th anniversary, WD-40 has teamed with the Carey Brothers, home improvement gurus andhosts of the syndicated radio program On the House, to bring you the WD-40 Job Site. Whetherit’s a hint on removing a broken light bulb ora tip on fixing a hole in drywall, these tips are not found in any trade manual or instruction book. They are trade secrets submitted to WD-40 Company from professionals who learned them while on thejob. Here are twoof the many tips you will find on thesite. Remove a broken light bulb with a rubberball or half a potato. If that doesn’t work, needle-nose pliers can provide the torque you need. To find the circuit breaker you want to turn off, plug a radio into the circuit and turn up the volume so you can hearit from the breaker panel. When the music stops, you can sit down: you’ve found the right switch. Located at www.wd40.com, the WD-40 Job Site has many other tips to help do-it-yourselfers complete all sorts of projects with ease. The searchable database offers more than 150 trade secrets Half a potato can help you free a broken light bulb. that can save you time, money and effort. On the site, you can even learn the most popular use for WD-40 in each state. In the Great State Debate, thousandsof voters across all 50 states declared their favorite uses for the product in an online poll conducted by WD-40 Company. For example, residents of California use WD-40 to clean the surfboard wax from their car roofs, while people in Florida use it to remove love bugs from cargrills and bumpers. The product is also celebrating its 50th anniversary with a limited-edition commemorative can available through October 2003. For more tips or a list of 2,000 uses for the lubricant, go to www.wd40.com.