I know I read it here, but I can't find it or who said it. But the topic was buck folders needing to be cleaned out because of the polishing grit in them. The jist of the matter was that they'll have much better snap after they are cleaned.
Well I thought that my new 301 was pretty good as is. It had great snap, just the right amount of tension opening and closing, and pretty dang smooth to boot. Well, after some use it was time to touch it up on the old F. Dick sharpening steel, so I thought I'd give her a good dousing of wonder juice (aka WD-40) to clean her up a bit and see if it did anything to the over all opening and closing. Boy did it ever.
It was good before, but now she'll sure enough snap closed. If you haven't tried it, do so now. I used the new type can with the permanently attached straw, opened up all the blades halfway so that it could get in between the spring and the blades real good, and blew it out good. It made a big difference, and she shines like new now.
Thanks for tip, whoever you were!
Y'all were right!
Y'all were right!
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
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That new can is the best thing since white bread.Colonel26 wrote:I know I read it here, but I can't find it or who said it. But the topic was buck folders needing to be cleaned out because of the polishing grit in them. The jist of the matter was that they'll have much better snap after they are cleaned.
Well I thought that my new 301 was pretty good as is. It had great snap, just the right amount of tension opening and closing, and pretty dang smooth to boot. Well, after some use it was time to touch it up on the old F. Dick sharpening steel, so I thought I'd give her a good dousing of wonder juice (aka WD-40) to clean her up a bit and see if it did anything to the over all opening and closing. Boy did it ever.
It was good before, but now she'll sure enough snap closed. If you haven't tried it, do so now. I used the new type can with the permanently attached straw, opened up all the blades halfway so that it could get in between the spring and the blades real good, and blew it out good. It made a big difference, and she shines like new now.
Thanks for tip, whoever you were!
"Sometimes the best part of a knife was the hunt",PK
" Fēng xiàng zhuàn biàn shí, yǒu rén zhú qiáng, yǒu rén zào fēng chē!"
"When the wind of change blows some build walls while others build windmills!"
" Fēng xiàng zhuàn biàn shí, yǒu rén zhú qiáng, yǒu rén zào fēng chē!"
"When the wind of change blows some build walls while others build windmills!"
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Truer words have never been spoken. I love that new can. I love WD40 too. It ain't the best lube in the world, but it's a dang fine cleaner. I use it to clean the bores of my shotguns. It'll take out powder and plastic wad fouling like nobody's business and it won't break the bank either. I don't use it in the actions, but in the bore it is fine stuff.
I like it to clean out my edc knives too. Oh, and this may be bad of me, but I like the smell too!
I like it to clean out my edc knives too. Oh, and this may be bad of me, but I like the smell too!
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
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jerryd6818
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That's because the main ingredient in WD-40 is Stoddard Solvent (a good degreaser). Look up the MSDS. There's nothing in WD-40 that is considered a lubricant.Colonel26 wrote: It ain't the best lube in the world, but it's a dang fine cleaner.
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"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
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The Few. The Proud.
Jerry D.
This country has become more about sub-groups than about it's unity as a nation.
"The #72 pattern has got to be pretty close to the perfect knife."
--T.J. Murphy 2012
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Colonel26: "but I like the smell too!"
Yep, like Hoppes #9 and that famous new car smell - we're just sucking in those VOC's!! Guess I am permanently brain damaged from all those good smells over the years!
Yep, like Hoppes #9 and that famous new car smell - we're just sucking in those VOC's!! Guess I am permanently brain damaged from all those good smells over the years!
Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club...Robert Ruark
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Lol, me too OH.
Jerry, you're right. Very little "oil" in it. It do clean good though.
Jerry, you're right. Very little "oil" in it. It do clean good though.
“There are things in the old Book which I may not be able to explain, but I fully accept it as the infallible word of God, and receive its teachings as inspired by the Holy Spirit.”
Robert E. Lee
Robert E. Lee