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How often do you all clean out and treat the joints of your edc saks?? thanks in advance.
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I usually run my carry SAKs through the dishwasher and oil them once a month or after heavy use.
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Seldom, on average once a year, if that. For the past decade, my SAKs get carried mostly as "just in case" items, rarely used for anything really messy. My hard users since 1996, when I first discovered them, have been Leathermen, which get attended to after whatever may have munged them up. When I do perform maintenance, it's pretty much the same with either; WD 40 soak, pipecleaners to clear stuff out of tiny spaces, followed by wipedown and drop of machine oil in the pivots. Never had a corrosion problem with any of them. I get to my wife's SAK every few years (around here, knife maintenance is my chore 
), by which time it's sticky, gritty and awful. Same treatment, comes back like new. Love the SAK. 
), by which time it's sticky, gritty and awful. Same treatment, comes back like new. Love the SAK. Every day I carry a Vic SAK, usually the same one for months at a time, then I may carry a different one for a few months, and so forth. I don't do anything terribly messy with them but I don't baby them.
I almost never wash them, but if I do need to, then I just soak them in Dawn dish soap and hot water and then scrub them out with a bristle brush.
However, every few days I do spray the blade(s) and the can opener with rubbing alcohol and wipe them down, just to sanitize them a bit. I do use the blades for cutting food every once in a while. I keep the alcohol in a spray bottle for cleaning my eye glasses, so it's ready to hand when I remember the SAKs.
I almost never wash them, but if I do need to, then I just soak them in Dawn dish soap and hot water and then scrub them out with a bristle brush.
However, every few days I do spray the blade(s) and the can opener with rubbing alcohol and wipe them down, just to sanitize them a bit. I do use the blades for cutting food every once in a while. I keep the alcohol in a spray bottle for cleaning my eye glasses, so it's ready to hand when I remember the SAKs.
I use the toothpick or a wooden toothpick to clean dust and lint out of them periodically. Open the blades halfways and try to clean the pivot on the outside and the inside.
They rarely get gritty but when they do i do the "fastrunning-very HOT-soapy water rinse then dry" treatment.
Sometimes i think that lubricants are the real reason for the occasional grittyness.
I have some SAKs that have never been lubed (only cleaned) that have never had a grit problem.
The 2 or 3 out of 50 that suffer occasional grittyness are the ones that have been lubed.
Or maybe its just a case of of guilt by association.lol.
Either way lately i am very sparing in my use of lubricants in SAK's and the incidence of the gritty factor have been greatly reduced.
They rarely get gritty but when they do i do the "fastrunning-very HOT-soapy water rinse then dry" treatment.
Sometimes i think that lubricants are the real reason for the occasional grittyness.
I have some SAKs that have never been lubed (only cleaned) that have never had a grit problem.
The 2 or 3 out of 50 that suffer occasional grittyness are the ones that have been lubed.
Or maybe its just a case of of guilt by association.lol.
Either way lately i am very sparing in my use of lubricants in SAK's and the incidence of the gritty factor have been greatly reduced.