Avon calling!

[Fred.Rowe]

I ran out of Cool Tool lubricant, today, while doing the hand sanding on five, W2 blades. I had a bottle of Avon's Skin so soft, on the shelf. I thought I might give it a try. This stuff will remove tar from your auto, almost as well as diesel fuel and has a nice oil like consistency. It works really well. You only have to apply a small amount to do the job. I was cleaning up the residue from the PBC coating on these knives and the SSS broke the scale down and made the sanding paper cut really well.
I'll be ordering my sanding lubricant from the Avon lady from now on. :thumbup:

It makes your hands smell really nice also, Fred

 

[Robert Dark]

They say it repels "Skeeters" too Fred, but I'm not sold on "making your hands smell nice".

What ya gonna say when somebody looks at your hands and they are all black down in the finger print area and all cut up from blades and belts and your fingernails are so nasty that it would take several years of being "knife-free" in order for them to look like they belong to a human?

You can always say......... "Well, they don't look like much, but they sure smell nice".

I don't use sandpaper any more, I just sand with my old rough fingers.

Robert

 

[Fred.Rowe]

Robert,

You can tell a lot about a knife maker, just by looking at there hands. They speak volumes.
Knife makers don't need no cologne, they have a smell all their own.
And it's not necessarily, pleasant.:barf:

Have a good one, Fred

 

[jdm61]

LOL.....i was going to comment on SSS keeping the skeeters out of your shop too. I use Windex most of the time. After using it for a while, the cutting fluid seems to be a bit too "slick". I have also read that you can use Simple Green as sanding lube too. I use a brass bar for the heavy stuff a la the Don Fogg method and my fingers and one of those big rubber 3M sanding blocks for the finer wet grits.

 

[TekSec]

Yup, I use Simple Green and water (1:3 mix). But I may have to try the SSS. Using degreasing fluid kinda takes all the natural oils out of your skin (go figure!).

 

[indian george]

Robert,

You can tell a lot about a knife maker, just by looking at there hands. They speak volumes.
Knife makers don't need no cologne, they have a smell all their own.
And it's not necessarily, pleasant.:barf:

Have a good one, Fred

Fred, you could be standing next to a dead Ole Goat and the goat will smell better. HEHEHEHEHE!!! Two Ole Goats side by side.:jerkit::barf:

 

[B Finnigan]

Window cleaner would rust my blades over night in the shop. I now use mineral spirits and it works good.

 

[Raymond Richard]

Fred, I've been using a mixture of skin so soft and KY Jelly on my bald head trying to get hair to grow. No luck with that but not a bad quench.

 

[indian george]

Fred, I've been using a mixture of skin so soft and KY Jelly on my bald head trying to get hair to grow. No luck with that but not a bad quench.

Duh!!Bubba!! KY doesn't grow hair on neither bald heads.:jerkit:But it does have its advantages on the lower one.HEHEHEHEHE!!!

 

[jdm61]

Window cleaner would rust my blades over night in the shop. I now use mineral spirits and it works good.

I wash and dry mine off every time I turn the blade over or change grits. I have found that the big rubber 3M block works faster than fingers, betterthan the bar for fine sanding and it kind of wraps around a convex grind. It also seems to be much easier to keep moving straight compared to the bar or fingers, especially with very fine grits.