Rust inside the liners?

herisson said:
Wash, scrub, dry and oil... If correctly cared for, your all steel pocket knife will outlive you and (at least) the next generation. There's no benefit with brass, except it looks classy and period correct (can't imagine an all steel Laguiole... Oh, they do them ? Great , but I will still go only with a brass linered one).
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I definitely agree with you on the Laguiole knife... Though I could have purchased both the one I purchased for myself, and the one I purchased as a present, in stainless bolsters and liners... I chose the brass. Some things just seem to be better left alone ;-)

I have some Case knives that have CV steel blades, rather than stainless... but I don't know, and wonder, if Case still uses stainless steel springs on their CV bladed knives?
 
I bought a Case 77 blue scroll cheetah at a good price because it had a little rust around the joint spilling into the liner. I went to work on it with WD40 and cotton swabs. That didn't get it perfect so I broke out my variable speed Dremel and attached the wire wheel they sell for it. It easly cleaned it out on low speed then I used their small buffing wheel and some green buffing compound which brightened up the liner. Then I cleaned out the joint and hit it with Rem oil after it dried. I normally don't recommend using a Dremel but it worked great on this knife.
 
I have quite a few been sitting in the tube for 6 years and look just like the day they have shipped. Matter of fact I have not found a spot on a GEC knife yet except where they did not wipe off the etching neutralizer well; and that shows up by the time I get them in the mail. If I am carrying one, I hit it with a shot of CRC Heavy Duty Silicone and it will keep a good protective layer over a clean surface.
When I first was trying to find something to add a little protection I did a test with iodine. You protect a knife with your favorite product and then put it in a ziploc with a cap full of iodine. Then you will know how good your protection will be. Nothing will fight the iodine forever, but you can gauge your solutions. For me, the CRC outlasted RenWax and a couple other test solutions.
 
David Lowry said:
Oh man. This is the kind of stuff I hate to hear. I didn't even think about that until now. Welp.....not gonna buy any knives without brass liners unless the steel is stainless.
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I don t really worry about it too much. I just rub the liners with paper towel and oil if it needs it. Eventually, the liners will patina too.
 
I can think of two guys here on the forum that each have North of 100 GEC knives that store them in their tubes. I've never had a knife rust/spot in a tube but then again, I wipe my knives down with one of those dark gray, silicone, gun cloths treated with Rem Oil.
 
Modoc ED said:
I can think of two guys here on the forum that each have North of 100 GEC knives that store them in their tubes. I've never had a knife rust/spot in a tube but then again, I wipe my knives down with one of those dark gray, silicone, gun cloths treated with Rem Oil.
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hope I didn't unleash an unnecessary panic by talking about the tubes causing rust, I thought keeping them in a tube would mean that it is in a stable environment. I did have them on top of a wooden cupboard, the heater is next to it, and I keep a tupperware container with water nearby as a makeshift humidifier so the room doesn't dry out (for my sinuses). Now I keep an eye on the knives outside of the tubes, and so far no problems.
 
The tubes themselves are not a problem, only a problem if the air quality the cardboard tubes are kept in is humid. Obviously, the tubes are not total protection from the environment they're kept in. Even if one was to put in a fresh silica gel pack in the tube to take out the moisture in the tube... If you have a humid environment around the tube, the moisture will enter your tube, fully saturate the silica gel, and there is that tube sauna again. It comes down to not only treatment (like wiping down and lightly oiling)... but just as important is storage location and it's air quality. In other words, location, location, location ;-)
 
Baloney, baloney, baloney.:rolleyes:

Errrrrrrrrr, sorry - I just couldn't pass that up.:)
 
fatcorgi said:
how is it baloney? It thought it was a reasonable enough supposition.
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It was said tongue-in-cheek - you know, a joke (like a good ribbing). I see your location is Germany. Maybe it got lost in the translation.
 
Bigfattyt said:
I don t really worry about it too much.
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I don't really worry about rust either. I just give a new knife a light oiling and quick sharpening touch up when I get one and call it good. I just mentioned the rust between the cover and liner to stir the pot as Franck slyly pointed out.:)
 
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