Here's the authors post:
"Allow me to appologize one more time. The test material was intended to be automatic transmission fluid. In the auto parts department, I grabbed a bottle of power steering fluid by mistake. If you read the article, the power steering fluid shown was used. The table you quoted has not been corrected.
One salient point not covered in your question -- these are loads required to free the test piece after 8 hours of immersion in penetrating oil. This is probably not representative of a quick squirt just before a wrench is applied. "
So he used POWER STEERING FLUID, not ATF, so all those cited tables are wrong and people have been living off the placebo effect hahaha
This is one reason why you should NEVER BLINDLY TRUST EVERYTHING YOU READ. Plus the bolts artificially rusted for only a few days using an electrical method (which seems not to be described... so again, cannot say its real world or simply something for a repeatable test).
I say the biggest fault is that heat was not used as a test point. Who waits 8 hours to soak a bolt???? 20 seconds of MAPP and off it comes.
