Pipe Break - 2.5 oz. can with separate straw (Single Can)

Proven performance for over 40 years is why we offer our money back guarantee for this product. If it does not work for you, send it back and we’ll give you your money back. What better way to make the decision to try it?

There are no suave and sophisticated sales efforts or sexy models telling you how it penetrates better and deeper, just performance. As a guy on TV used to say: “Try it, you’ll like it.”

For people who have to fight with rust, this is the best penetrating oil to break loose rust.  Formulated so you can get the parts apart when you need to.

Pipe Break was designed to solve rusted fastener problems. In the oil and gas industry, large pipe sections are connected with flanges so they can be serviced. Most of the pipe is welded, but the need to take some sections apart becomes difficult since they have been outside, rusted over time and the long-term torqued connection also creates molecular bonding of the two pieces.  Later on, when the pipe section needs to be taken apart, they do not have to cut and re-weld a section. The last thing customers want is a crew showing up to do a vital service task and have them delayed a long time getting into the connection which could be costly and frustrating. With any large pipe project, going to unbolt a section is labor-, equipment- and tool-intensive. Taking a lot of time fighting rusted parts just drives the cost up even more.  Pipe Break solved the issue by helping to speed up the project by efficiently getting joints apart. That’s how Pipe Break got its name.

Pipe Break is used to break apart sections of pipe - not break pipes. The product fights rust when fasteners get bound up tight. It is used in all sorts of applications, from small rusted screws in eyeglasses and guns to big oil refineries.

No one wants a penetrating oil. No one wants busted knuckles or broken studs.  What you want is to quickly and efficiently remove fasteners from some sort of assembly that needs to be serviced or repaired. Frustration mounts the harder it gets and the more stuff breaks. It only makes sense that people want the best penetrating oil to get the job done without creating more work for themselves and have stuff break.

• Surface Tension
• Adhesion vs. Cohesion of Molecules
• Creep
• Viscosity
• Mechanical Properties
• Chemically Cut Through Rust
• Lubrication

Performance and physical characteristics are how you can see that Pipe Break is as good as or better than any other penetrating oil on the market. Here are the testable individual factors that go together to make it work so well.

The Pipe Break Can Itself

Pipe Break is only sold in aerosol cans. If you are buying a penetrating oil and it has a screw top, then the manufacturer is telling you they do not have a product that leaks from the container in storage or shipping. Think about it - why doesn't it?

Surface Tension

Pipe Break is a liquid with a very low surface tension. Opposite of water on a freshly-stained deck or a windshield with Rain-Ex, it does not bead up.  The low surface tension causes it to spread on rusty metal and find the miniscule cracks to get down and loosen and lubricate the stuck fastener so you can remove it.

Adhesive Forces vs. Cohesive Forces

At the molecular level, varied materials have different properties. The molecular forces in Pipe Break are high in molecular adhesion. The molecules are attracted to other molecules like rust, so it spreads fast. Put a drop on a rusty part and you can just see it quickly spread off to the sides of where the drop was applied.  Cohesive molecules tend to stick to themselves and not spread.

Creep

Creep is the ability to spread and get in places at the molecular level. One way to see this is if you put a rusty bolt in some Pipe Break, the penetrating oil will climb up the threads. If you put it on top of a threaded bolt, it will work its way down in between the nut and the bolt.

Viscosity

Pipe Break is not “thick,” so it flows well. It is formulated to be very thin with low viscosity which means that it flows well and works into all the tight places. It must be this way in order for it to carry the active ingredient to the point of contact where it needs to unstick the stuck parts.

Chemically Cut Through Rust

Breaking down molecular bonds both between metal-to-metal contact and metal-to-rust loosens the area to get it moving. Rust is rough, gritty and hard with all its friction and it fights movement. The ability to attack and break down the molecular bonds of the rust turns the rust into a toothpaste consistency. The result is both the nut is easier to break free and, when undoing it the rest of the way, it will unscrew easier when the Pipe Break penetrating oil is sprayed on the threads.

Lubrication

The lubrication helps get the parts free and then also has a protective quality to help prevent and slow rust from reforming. You can prove it for yourself by repeated applications on a very smooth surface. A slight stickiness will develop and can be cleaned off, like in a situation where it is used as a gun oil.

Applications

Some other products claim to be a solution to a multitude of problems. Pipe Break is a product solely designed for loosening frozen, rusted parts. It is not like some other things that are good for 200 uses.  This is a focused product, good for breaking things free that are bound up by rust.

Industry Applications for Pipe Break

• Plumbing
• Marine
• Automotive
• Construction
• Farming
• Fishing
• Bike Maintenance
• Aviation

The 2.5-oz Pipe Break can has an attached straw on the cap for controlled pin point spray application in hard-to-reach places and then can be removed if you want a standard spray application of penetrating oil.

Made in America

Pipe Break is proudly made in America, right in New York State.

We also have Pipe Break by the case and you save 10 percent per can and the shipping cost per can is less, if that is of interest to you.