kmmcrafts Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 Most times I never seem to get all that much oily blade issues.. and I rarely ever clean them... however today opening up a new pack of blades the oil was almost dripping off of them.. There was no way I was putting them in my storage tubes like that as that oil would spread on the next several batches of blades and probably affect me for several months or years LOL.. So I took the three dozen I had in my hand that was getting ready to go into the tubes and went and grabbed a can of brake cleaner.. I sprayed all the blades still bundled up with the wire wrapping.. A light bulb went off in my tiny brain.. why not spray the whole batch at once like this... maybe some of you do? Back when I used to clean the blades I always did just one at a time as I used them.. Now.. you probably shouldn't do that if you're not using the blades up very fast.. That doesn't seem to be an issue for me with my most commonly used blades.. Anyway, I just thought it was easier and faster to spray them clean of oil with a quick spray of brake cleaner.. all three dozen was cleaned in less than a minute, LOL wombatie, heppnerguy, scrollingforsanity and 3 others 4 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackman Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 What kind of blade? OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted May 22, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 Pegas MG #3 blade is the ones I had a lot of oil on.. I'm not certain they came that way though, they was in the zip lock type package that they come in however had been open but it was zipped shut so I'm not sure.. The first bunch of blades I took out didn't seem oily.. I emptied the package today and they was really oiled compared to the normal "slightly oiled" .. I had a full quart of brake fluid fall off a shelf and broke open, Brand New bottle.. LOL I doubt that got into / on them.. as I was right there when it happen ( I was the cause LOL ) but quickly cleaned it up and the outside of the pack wasn't oily heppnerguy and OCtoolguy 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryEA Posted May 22, 2020 Report Share Posted May 22, 2020 Sounds good.... I have never had a problem,,,but then I don't order lots of blades kmmcrafts and OCtoolguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WayneMahler Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 I clean mine with some denatured alcohol and a paper towel. Doesn't normally take a lot on normal manufacturing residue . May have to wipe down several times if they are dripping with oil, never experienced that issue. I have read someplace a while ago that mineral spirits works also . Best of luck. OCtoolguy and tomsteve 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 Nice quick way of cleaning them up! I'll have to steal that idea from you Kevin. When I wipe mine down I also the ends of the blade with 320 grit emery cloth, just to rough them up a bit. OCtoolguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCtoolguy Posted May 23, 2020 Report Share Posted May 23, 2020 20 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: Pegas MG #3 blade is the ones I had a lot of oil on.. I'm not certain they came that way though, they was in the zip lock type package that they come in however had been open but it was zipped shut so I'm not sure.. The first bunch of blades I took out didn't seem oily.. I emptied the package today and they was really oiled compared to the normal "slightly oiled" .. I had a full quart of brake fluid fall off a shelf and broke open, Brand New bottle.. LOL I doubt that got into / on them.. as I was right there when it happen ( I was the cause LOL ) but quickly cleaned it up and the outside of the pack wasn't oily And I thought that stuff only happened to me. Ha! kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsteve Posted May 25, 2020 Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 (edited) On 5/22/2020 at 3:44 PM, kmmcrafts said: A light bulb went off in my tiny brain.. why not spray the whole batch at once like this... maybe some of you do? note to all: unless ya want to have a LOT of fun, do batches of the SAME blades at once. its real fun after the,"crap....now i have to figger out what # blades each dozen is" (dim)light bulb goes off AFTER cleaning a few dozen of various # blades. fortunately i had enough wits to NOT take the little wire bundling them up off of each dozen Edited May 25, 2020 by tomsteve kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kmmcrafts Posted May 25, 2020 Author Report Share Posted May 25, 2020 4 minutes ago, tomsteve said: note to all: unless ya want to have a LOT of fun, do batches of the SAME blades at once. its real fun after the,"crap....now i have to figger out what # blades each dozen is" (dim)light bulb goes off AFTER cleaning a few dozen of various # blades. fortunately i had enough wits to NOT take the little wire bundling them up off of each dozen Been there done that once.. Took a little while but I figured it out.. tomsteve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heppnerguy Posted May 26, 2020 Report Share Posted May 26, 2020 On 5/22/2020 at 12:44 PM, kmmcrafts said: Most times I never seem to get all that much oily blade issues.. and I rarely ever clean them... however today opening up a new pack of blades the oil was almost dripping off of them.. There was no way I was putting them in my storage tubes like that as that oil would spread on the next several batches of blades and probably affect me for several months or years LOL.. So I took the three dozen I had in my hand that was getting ready to go into the tubes and went and grabbed a can of brake cleaner.. I sprayed all the blades still bundled up with the wire wrapping.. A light bulb went off in my tiny brain.. why not spray the whole batch at once like this... maybe some of you do? Back when I used to clean the blades I always did just one at a time as I used them.. Now.. you probably shouldn't do that if you're not using the blades up very fast.. That doesn't seem to be an issue for me with my most commonly used blades.. Anyway, I just thought it was easier and faster to spray them clean of oil with a quick spray of brake cleaner.. all three dozen was cleaned in less than a minute, LOL I have never experience blades with obvious oil on them. I have found since I changed my clamp inserts I have never had a blade slip on me since, I will continue to do a bi yearly insert change on my clamps now. However if I do get blades with a noticeably amount of oil on them, I will use your tip anyway. Great idea. That is one of the things I love about The Village.....new ideas and people that share them with everyone else. We can all learn from each other here Dick heppnerguy kmmcrafts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomsteve Posted May 26, 2020 Report Share Posted May 26, 2020 21 hours ago, kmmcrafts said: Been there done that once.. Took a little while but I figured it out.. it was a lot easier than knockin my blade storage off the bench. sorting the spirals and straight baldes was easy. sorting the numbers of them blades? close was good enough. i narrowed it down to ,"thats under a 5 and thats over a 5." kmmcrafts and Gene Howe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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