celluloid scales and carbon steel

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bandit7.5

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I picked up a nice boker trapper w/ those red, white and yellow celluloid scales at a yard sale last week. So, I get home and put it in my cigarbox of trading knives and forget about it. BIG mistake, I'm looking through it for trade today and all of my carbon steel old timers have even coat of rust on the exposed edges of the blades. What the heck is going on. My friend tells me you do not keep celluloid knives with carbon steel.
My old timers are all users so it was not a big deal but i did learn something new today.
Lucky Me
 
Yeah, LT and a few others here are the eggspurts on these, but the way I understand it is the cell outgasses nitrate fumes. And nitrates are corrosive. And combustable too. Are you old enough to remember when the projector stopped at the theatre. and you got an excellent view of the film burning? Same stuff sorta. Not as much fun as the more modern det-cord, but it does make for a good improvised pyrotechnic. I don't have any cell...yet, but when I do, I have been forewarned to treat it differently in storage and display.

Codger
 
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