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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001193125-12-334218
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FILED AS OF DATE:		20120803

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	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			WD 40 CO
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000105132
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISCELLANEOUS CHEMICAL PRODUCTS [2890]
		IRS NUMBER:				951797918
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0831

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	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1061 CUDAHY PL
		CITY:			SAN DIEGO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			92110
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6192751400

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		1061 CUDAHY PLACE
		CITY:			SAN DIEGO
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			92110
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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">August&nbsp;3, 2012 </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Securities and Exchange Commission </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Division of Corporate Finance </FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">100 F Street, NE </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Washington, D.C. 20549
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Jeffrey Gordon</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Rufus Decker</FONT></TD></TR>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Re:</B></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>WD-40 Company</B> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Form
10-K for the Year Ended August&nbsp;31, 2011, Filed October&nbsp;20, 2011</B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>Form 10-Q for the Quarter Ended May&nbsp;31,
2012, Filed July&nbsp;10, 2012</B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:4%"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B>File No. 0-6936</B> </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Dear Mr.&nbsp;Gordon: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">This letter is provided in response to the comments of the staff of the
Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission contained in your letter dated July&nbsp;23, 2012. For reference purposes, the staff&#146;s comments have been reproduced below in italics followed by our responses to each of
the comments. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I><U>Form 10-K for the Year Ended August&nbsp;31, 2011 </U></I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I><U>Item&nbsp;7- Management&#146;s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, page 22 </U></I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I><U>Results of Operations, page 24 </U></I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>1.</I></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>You disclose on page F-32 that you evaluate the performance of your segments and allocate resources to them based on sales, operating income and expected return. In
future filings, please enhance the disclosure in your MD&amp;A to separately discuss the business reasons for the changes between periods in operating income of each of your segments: the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. In doing so, please
disclose the amount of each significant change in line items between periods and the business reasons for it. In circumstances where there is more than one business reason for the change, attempt to quantify the incremental impact of each individual
business reason discussed on the overall change in the line item. Please show us supplementally what your revised MD&amp;A for fiscal year 2011 as compared to fiscal year 2010 will look like. See Item&nbsp;303(a)(3) of Regulation S-K.</I>
</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>Response</U></B>: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">In future filings, we will enhance the disclosures in the MD&amp;A to discuss the significant changes in income from operations for each of our segments: the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. As
requested by the staff, we are providing below the additional disclosures and revisions that we would have included in our MD&amp;A for fiscal year 2011 as compared to fiscal year 2010. Although we plan to follow this same format in our future
filings, such disclosures are subject to change based on changes in the underlying facts. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><I><U>Income from Operations by Segment
</U></I></B></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">The following table summarizes income from operations by segment (in thousands, except percentages): </FONT></P>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Americas</FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1"><SUP
STYLE="vertical-align:baseline; position:relative; bottom:.8ex">(1)</SUP></FONT><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"></FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">19,777</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">25,095</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">$</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(5,318</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(21)%</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Europe</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">27,846</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">25,075</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">2,771</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">11%</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="top"> <P STYLE="margin-left:1.00em; text-indent:-1.00em"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Asia-Pacific</FONT></P></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">&nbsp;</FONT></TD>
<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">6,509</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">5,028</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">1,481</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">29%</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">54,132</FONT></TD>
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<TD VALIGN="bottom" ALIGN="right"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">(1,066</FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="1">Income from operations for the Americas segment includes corporate expenses, none of which are allocated to the other segments. </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>

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 <P STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Americas </U></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Income from operations for the Americas segment decreased to $19.8 million, down $5.3 million, or 21%, for the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;31, 2011 compared to the prior fiscal year. The decrease in the
income from operations for our Americas segment was primarily due to a decrease in sales of $10.0 million and a slight decrease in the gross profit as a percentage of net sales from 50.7% to 50.4% year over year. Despite the lower level of sales,
there were no significant changes in operating expenses for the Americas segment from year to year, resulting in a decrease in operating income as a percent of net sales from 14.0% for the year ended August&nbsp;31, 2010 to 11.7% for the year ended
August&nbsp;31, 2011. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Europe </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Income from operations for the Europe segment increased to $27.8 million, up $2.8 million, or 11%, for the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;31, 2011 compared
to the prior fiscal year, primarily due to an increase in sales of $15.0 million which was partially offset by a 2.9 percentage point decrease in the gross margin from period to period. As a percentage of net sales, gross profit for the Europe
segment decreased to 51.5% for the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;31, 2011 compared to 54.4% for the prior fiscal year primarily due to the higher costs of petroleum-based materials, sales mix changes and increased manufacturing costs in Europe. The
higher level of sales for the Europe segment from year to year was accompanied by an increase in total operating expenses of $1.8 million. Operating income as a percent of net sales remained relatively constant at 22.2% for the year ended
August&nbsp;31, 2011 compared to 22.7% for the prior fiscal year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><U>Asia-Pacific </U></FONT></P>
<P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Income from operations for the Asia-Pacific segment increased to $6.5 million, up $1.5 million, or 29%, for the fiscal year ended August&nbsp;31, 2011
compared to the prior fiscal year. The increase in the income from operations for our Asia-Pacific segment was primarily due to an increase in sales of $9.8 million which was offset by a decrease in the gross profit as a percentage of net sales from
44.9% to 43.8% year over year. The higher level of sales for the Asia-Pacific segment from year to year was accompanied by an increase in total operating expenses of $2.5 million. Operating income as a percent of net sales remained relatively
constant at 15.8% for the year ended August&nbsp;31, 2011 compared to 16.1% for the prior fiscal year. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I><U>Form 10-Q for the Quarter Ended
May&nbsp;31, 2012 </U></I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I><U>General </U></I></FONT></P> <P STYLE="font-size:6px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">&nbsp;</P>
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<TD WIDTH="4%" VALIGN="top" ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>2.</I></FONT></TD>
<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><I>Please address the above comment in your interim filings as well, as applicable.</I> </FONT></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:18px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT
STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2"><B><U>Response</U></B>: </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:6px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We will address the above comments, as applicable, in our future interim
filings. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">As requested by the staff, the Company hereby acknowledges that: </FONT></P>
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to staff comments do not foreclose the Commission from taking any action with respect to the
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<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> <P ALIGN="left"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">the Company may not assert staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of
the United States. </FONT></P></TD></TR></TABLE> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">We appreciate your comments, and hope that we have adequately addressed them with the foregoing
responses. If you should have any questions, please contact me at (619)&nbsp;275-1400 ext. 1116. </FONT></P> <P STYLE="margin-top:12px;margin-bottom:0px"><FONT STYLE="font-family:Times New Roman" SIZE="2">Sincerely, </FONT></P>
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