flitz

We started a new forum!
ThreadMoving.jpg
 
I believe it's an Abrasive.I use it to clean blades & it will even take out small scratches.But be careful because it will scratch your blades too. :cool:
 
I like Flitz, and use it a lot. It doesn't seem to be a great rust preventer; Tuf Cloth is miles ahead on that. But for buffing out surface rust, Flitz is great. I have not tried to use Flitz on a polished blade, but as Buddy S suggests, it is an abrasive, and I imagine it would scratch a polished finish, just as he says. I do not see Flitz cause any finish problems in satin finished or tumbled blades.
 
Flitz is awesome , I have used it for a long time. It is a very mild abrasive that you wouldnt want to use on a mirror polish for example but then if you trying to remove a deep rust pit it wouldnt matter anyway :cool:
Preventative ? a little , its more cleaning of oxidization and light rust , etc or for a good polish.
 
rebeltf said:
Flitz is awesome , I have used it for a long time. It is a very mild abrasive that you wouldnt want to use on a mirror polish for example but then if you trying to remove a deep rust pit it wouldnt matter anyway :cool:
Preventative ? a little , its more cleaning of oxidization and light rust , etc or for a good polish.
Click to expand...

VERY mild is right... Some target shooters use it to polish their barrels with!!!

I did on one of my old 22's and it never shot better!!!
 
Ditto on the mildness of the abrasive.

In fact, MOST of what Flitz does is chemical.

It's great on bronze without much rubbing.

It's FANTASTIC for removing powder residue from the front of your stainless sixgun cylinder. :cool:

.
 
When they say polished blades mind you they mean those really nice mirror polished ones. I have used flitz on one blade that I buffed to a mirror finish, and it didn't scratch, though there were swirl marks when held under a bright light. This is really a non-issue, but I wouldn't want to try it on a thousand dollar mirror finished custom. There are polishes that are finer than flitz (at least the flitz I used) that shouldn't be a concern at all on hardened steel. If used on a satin or bead blasted finish it will over time give the metal more of a sheen than the original "dull" satin/bb, generally I like this effect, but if you would like the knife to not look shinier as it gets older then stick with wiping it down with some oil and a rag.
 
Yeah… I think it is abrasive to some degree, but it’s extremely mild. You can remove very shallow scratches with it, but that really requires too much effort to be worth it, IMO.

It does work great for getting rid of light oxidation though. One thing I use Flitz for a lot is polishing steel after an acid etch. It lets you lighten up the metal without having to use something that’s really abrasive.

The only problem I’ve experienced is that you have to polish the whole blade evenly, or you can end up with some spots that are a bit shinier than others. I guess that’s why the pros use those big buffing wheels: so they can get an even finish across the entire blade.
 
YOU FOOLS! YOU ARE ALL WRONG... HAHAHAHA.
YES, I WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, enough of that, I went to the Flitz website and found out that Flitz is NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT abrasive.
 
Walking Man said:
YOU FOOLS! YOU ARE ALL WRONG... HAHAHAHA.
YES, I WILL RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, enough of that, I went to the Flitz website and found out that Flitz is NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT, NOT abrasive.
Click to expand...

They may not consider it abrasive, but I assure you, as others have pointed out,that it IS indeed mildly abrasive.

Abrasive enough that my sempai managed to polish out the hamon on his Howard Clark Katana over the course of 3 years.

A product that works in a similar manner, but is completely non abrasive is called Noxon. That is what the japanese sword polishers that I know use to maintain slightly rusted blades.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
IIRC, there's some kind of "standard" for being able to call your product "non-abrasive" and the stuff in flitz is fine enough to fall under that classification. It is however, 100% most definately able to remove material through suspended cutting particles :p which makes it an abrasive in my book. You can hear and feel the abrasive working as you polish softer metals like brass. One of the finest abrasives I've ever used (and one I like alot for makeing brass things shiny for a long time) is a good cleaner paste wax, my favorite is Mothers (the one in the red steel can). It comes as a hard wax, and is "extremely" fine in its abrasive properties (it's designed to be regularly used on auto-paint after all).

Edit: magically I forgot to actually answer the thread starter's question again :foot: Corrosion protection is mild, It's fine for stainless steel, and the polishing action itself helps to remove rough spots that promote the formation of rust.

The thin waxy film it leaves will prevent flash rusting/corrosion after it's polished, and from light handling. Compared with Brasso for example (on brass) when I used to have to polish my belt buckles all the time, it would keep the brass bright all day long, with no "marks" where corrosion would set in and the rest of the buckle untouched, instead it would gracefully "darken" to an amber color over about a week, instead of getting splotchy and fingerprinted the first time it's touched (like with brasso)
 
yoda4561 said:
IIRC, there's some kind of "standard" for being able to call your product "non-abrasive"
Click to expand...

Yeah, like there's a "standard" for calling something "stainless" but it's more of a grey area.

.
 
The standard of abrasion is probably whether the scratches will visible to the human eye or not. Just a guess.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top