Best way to clean a folder?

[Ferrous Blader]

Hi,
I have a couple of benchmade folders -741 Onslaught, 520 presidio- and a Zero Tolerance 0350.
I've been EDCing the ZT for 6 months now and I'm sure there's gunk building up in there.
How do I clean out the inards without taking the knife apart? Something I can soak it in?

Thanks for any tips knife lovers!

 

[N4SIR]

hmmm light soap and water and a toothbrush and compressed air.... followed by light oil and cloth my 2cents

 

[eccvets]

depends on what you are using it for. if you are not using it for food prep, there are a crap load of things you can use. one of my fav is to first take a can of air and blow out the insides and then a can of remoil and spray the entire thing down and then blow it out with more air and then wipe it down as best I can. some times i use miltec-1 on the joints of my more expesnive folders.

if your using it for food prep, use pharm grade mineral oil.

 

[jimnolimit]

to clean out lint or gunk i use a tooth pick. i clean my knives with soap and water and i use either USP mineral oil, vaseline and/or graphite (from a pencil) to lubricate parts if they need it.

 

[Komitadjie]

I've seen several methods mentioned, perhaps the most common being to simply hose it out with RemOil, then blow the oil out as best you can with compressed air. Leaves just a film left to protect everything.

I'm still playing around with different methods, mine generally depend on what kind of knife it is that I'm goofing with. Most often I just use compressed air, and a dental pick to remove the gunk, although occasionally I'll end up with a tooth brush and simple green, ultrasonic in water-and-Dawn, or any one of a number of other methods.

 

[N4SIR]

mr clean magic eraser works wonders with G10

 

[eccvets]

ultrasonic in water-and-Dawn.

you have an ultrasonic cleaner just for your pocket knifes? the only time i have use one of those if on my instruments after surgery to break up the dried blood, just before I toss them into the autoclave haha.

 

[Jason B.]

For the benchmades a tooth brush + dish soap and hot tap water. Scrub well then rinse under hot tap to flush, let dry then oil.

The ZT is best to take apart or you end up with a rattle.

 

[Komitadjie]

you have an ultrasonic cleaner just for your pocket knifes? the only time i have use one of those if on my instruments after surgery to break up the dried blood, just before I toss them into the autoclave haha.

The place where I work uses that Dawn-and-ultrasonic combination to clean just about all of our machined parts before continuing processing, it works great for taking off the residual coolant from the mills. I've considered getting one for myself, they're tremendously useful. It'd be especially handy for cleaning gun parts that you can't reach the crud down in the cracks of, or that you really don't want to pull apart at the moment.