A buddy of mine emailed this to me, came from some friends of his that are restoring a B-25 that have tried it and said it worked really well on some corroded antenna mounts they were fighting with...
Penetrating Oils Compared
Machinist's Workshop magazine actually tested penetrates for break out
torque on rusted nuts. Significant results! They arranged a subjective test
of all the popular penetrates with the control being the torque required to
remove the nut from a "scientifically rusted" environment.
Penetrating
oil ..... Average load
None ..................... 516 pounds
WD-40 .................. 238 pounds
PB Blaster ..............214 pounds
Liquid Wrench ...... 127 pounds
Kano Kroil ............ 106 pounds
ATF-Acetone mix... 53 pounds
The ATF-Acetone mix was a "home brew" mix of 50 - 50 automatic transmission
fluid and acetone.
Note the "home brew" was better than any commercial product in this one
particular test. A local machinist group mixed up a batch and all now use it
with equally good results. Note also that "Liquid Wrench" is about as good
as "Kroil" for about 20% of the price.
Anyone ever heard of this? Thought I'd share it with ya'll. Since it involves using Acetone I'd keep it away from paint or plastic stuff.