how do you clean slipjoints?

I throw it in a ultrasonic cleaner filled with Prolix. Five minutes. Take the big chunks off with a toothbrush, and repeat.
 
i open up the blades and at best run a Q tip inside the liners. at worse i just scrape out the crud with a stick or toothpick.
 
Soap and water. Open & close the blades while washing, but be careful 'cause it will be slippery. Rinse with the warmest/hottest water you can stand. Wipe down and dry with a cloth or paper towel - the residual heat from rinsing with hot water will also help dry it. If you have access to compressed air you can blow it out also. Lube the joints. I don't know if this is the preferred method or not ..... I may get shot down ..... but that's how I do it. ;)
 
I use a rag wrapped around a popsicle stick to get into the channels and a microfiber cloth on the blade. If water is needed, hot water, then compressed air to blow out the water.
 
just like coyote
I clean them with paper, or wash under hot water and soap, an old toothbrush helps leaning
oil and ready to go, almost easier than modern one hand openers

Maxx
 
Soap and water,, dry off. Then I put it in Mineral oil if it is a natural handle material. Wipe dry and oil the joints.. Toothpicks and Q tips for the innards. If there is a lot of red rust I will use an SOS pad on the blades only. The soap in the SOS pad neutralizes the rust.
 
Another one here for hot soapy water and old toothbrush. Been doing that way my whole life and ain't nuthin bad happened yet.

Carl.
 
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If the job just requires getting some lint or dust out,pipe cleaners do the trick for me.
 
I call Bastid and he comes over to clean them. Pretty simple. :p


The real deal: Q-tips, pipe cleaner, folded napkins, coupla plastic toof picks, oil, and compressed air.
 
jackknife said:
Another one here for hot soapy water and old toothbrush. Been doing that way my whole life and ain't nuthin bad happened yet.

Carl.
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Same here. Works like a charm.

If I get a particularly nasty one to sharpen, I have been known to take kitchen matches and use the non sparky end to dig out the crud. I got one in the other day and had to use up some matches to get all the gunk out. If the match stick doesn't fit, I take a pocket knife and "sculpt" it to where it will reach the spots I need it to.

But once I did that and rinsed with soap and hot water, she was good as new. Oiled the joints and sat down with the sharpening stuff and honed and stropped her up good.

Some additional bits of crud worked their way out over the following week but she is smooth as silk now.
 
For really stubborn gunk, or to reach into small recesses, I use some WD-40 with the small straw on the can. Blasts out gunk without a concern for rust. Then wipe it down and use a more appropriate oil on the joints.
 
jackknife said:
Another one here for hot soapy water and old toothbrush. Been doing that way my whole life and ain't nuthin bad happened yet.

Carl.
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Ditto,
then when I am satisfied that it is clean I use a hair dryer to "dry" it. I hold it in a double folded towel and hit it from all angles with a hair dryer for a few minutes keeping the blades half open, or 3/4 open if it has 1/2 stops. It will be a little too hot to hold in a bare hand when I am done and after it has cooled long enough that I can just hold it, I oil it. The oil warms up up and really gets in the joints, and between the liners and springs.

The only thing I wonder about is the heat's effect on any epoxy that is used to hold non pinned shields.
 
I usually just use a Q-tips & pipe cleaners, along with compressed air. If it got really gunky, I'll use hot water followed by compressed air &, of course, lube it after any type of cleaning.
 
The plastic toothpick from a SAK works great for getting out stubborn crud. A dental pick can be useful too. For oil, I like CLP. Rem oil will do in a pinch. To get your blades clean, Simichrome is your best friend.
 
Soap water toothpick towel good shake then air dye for day with blades half to 3/4 open then oil joints. That's how I do it.
 
bamboo toothpick to pick out the crud then just a wipe with tuf-glide and a few drops in the joint. if its really bad i open and close the blade with oil in the joint and wipe with a rag. i ate steamed crabs with a northfield mini-hunter ,that was gifted to me by another member,this weekend and she still is fine.
 
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