Milk in my Delica...

J-man_the_jet

J-man_the_jet

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Long story short, I spilled a bowl of cereal, I've changed pants, cleaned the floor, now the knife. I've put it in water, taken it out, dryed it the best I could. Now I'm working it open and closing, lubing it with Militec, working it more, wiping off the blade and pivot areas. I'm hopeing I can wash the water out with the Militec. Any suggestions?
 
I'd spray it down with some WD-40, then take a hairdryer to it. It's very simple, and doesn't take much time. You also don't have to worry about water remaining in the pivot area.
 
Militec isn't good for washing the water out.

The WD in WD-40 is actually for Water Dispersant. WD-40 was originally formulated as a water dispersant for use on Minute Man misiles. It was the 40th formula they tried. Hence WD-40. It was originally actually classified. But, the misile techs found so many uses for it and found it so handy that they started stealing it and taking it home and so the military gave up and commercialized it. It's part of your peace dividend.

Compressed air is another good option as is hot air as from a hair dryer.

Then, Militec-1 as usual.
 
Thanks everybody. After what I was currently doing, I sprayed some WD-40 in it, dryed with the hair dryer, lubed it with some Militec, dryed it, wiped off the blade, dried, lubed, dried, etc. Works fine, but has some excess, that'll be gone soon though.
 
... BOOM!

lol... ya ever watched the sparks inside an old hair dryer? Ever created a flame thrower with wd40 and a lighter? Knife- flambé!
 
OK...you all are definitely stressing too much when it comes to cleaning a knife. Wash it with soap and water. Shake off the excess water. Dry it with a paper towel. Lube it with your favorite oil. Your knife will be fine. Relax... :rolleyes:
 
Originally posted by K Williams
OK...you all are definitely stressing too much when it comes to cleaning a knife. Wash it with soap and water. Shake off the excess water. Dry it with a paper towel. Lube it with your favorite oil. Your knife will be fine. Relax... :rolleyes:
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BUT I CAN'T! :D
 
Ever created a flame thrower with wd40 and a lighter?
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The propellant in WD-40 is propane. That's what really makes the flame thrower effect.

Once WD-40 is sprayed onto a surface, a hairdryer is unlikely to ignite it.

Furthermore, to have ignition, you have to bring a flamable material to the spark. A hairdryer blows away from the spark. While I would not encourage you to dry this at home, my guess is that if you were to set up a safe experiment in a laboratory environment, you'd find that you could direct a hairdryer, sparks and all, at a spraying can of WD-40 and not cause a problem. The air from the hairdryer would blow the propane away from the sparks.
 
Then why not combine the steps and just spray WD-40 through the back of the hair dryer. The flames will sterilize it.:D
 
By the way, the WD-40 part of WD-40 is quite flamable.

I remember several years ago going to a picnic with some friends. Nobody had thought to bring lighter fluid to get the charcoal going. But, I, as always, had a can of WD-40 in my car. I doused the coals with that and it worked perfectly. As I'm fond of saying, "No product does so many things as poorly as WD-40 does." It's not really great at anything (except as a water dispersant), but it's ok at so many things. What other single product can remove label scum, disperse water, lubricate, start charcoal, and serve as an emergency blow torch? Oh, and if you look at the label, it's USDA approved for food service too!

I don't know about any of you, but I've got several recipies that include the instruction "Grease the pan." I don't know what it is, but none of my pans have grease fittings. Besides, I don't know why you'd have to grease the pan; it has no moving parts. So, I just give it a spritz of WD-40 before each use and call it good.
 
Somewhere I recall reading that the USDA food-service approved label applies to equipment used in the food-industry (e.g. packaging, etc.), and that some products marked as such were not particularly safe to consume.

However, I may be wrong.
 
I spilled orange juice on my Strider GB I just sprayed it with PJ1 brake cleaner and blew the thing out with comp air.

Worked great.

You what they say about spilled milk!

Gollnick is right! ---WD40 rules as a fire starter. I was in the woods of West Virgina with damp wood and a few matches one can of WD40 and the freaking thing was blazing!
 
I have a master's degree in Science and the Sciences. Most everything in this world (except for women) is physics. If you know physics, you'll do well.
 
Hehehe... Your gonna hate this...

PROVE IT!

I'll go on believing that if its within two feet of a freshly sprayed WD40'd knife, that I dont want any part of it ;)

I think it comes from working on cars, the most unlikely things ever end up on fire when I'm around em... Brake hoses, grease fittings, auto tranny fluid soaked rags...
 
Gollnick, that's a beginning of an explanation but not the end of it.
However it is you know all of the stuff you know, keep it up, and thanks for the info.
 
rename that knife delicate it it cant take a bath in your corn flakes. and if you cant dry it with flaming wd 40 it aint worth having
 
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