For those of us who grew up in the seventies all the great products we have available today didn’t exist. So we made due with what we had. Some still do.
I don't actually remember much about the 1970s because I was taking a lot of acid. But I do remember the 60s pretty well. Things were
really tough in those days. We didn't even have disco music or The Dukes of Hazzard then. But I seem to recall that we did have both mineral spirits and WD-40.