So, when you wash your knife...

Clean with car water washer stuff (no salt). Air dry. Clean inside liner with flexable pipe cleaner. Tuf Glide pivot and operate 20 times add a little more. Marine Sentry Tuf Cloth the blade.

Also, strip knife, use silocone grease on pivot area, and ball bearing indent, under washers. While doing this, put one drop of Tuf Glide on grease. Works for me!
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Lots of these ideas are good. I like the idea of using very hot water. I do like to take a toothpick and add a dab of black molybdenum disufide into the pivot. I figure if the water you use is that hot, it might flush the grease out of the pivot. I'm also a fan of canned air and WD-40 to drive out moisture, and then CLP-Breakfree or a Tuff-Cloth to protect the decorative parts of the blade.--OKG
 
Wash my folders, just like I wash my kitchen knives (and for the same reason, to keep them food-prep clean). Hot water, detergent, sponge, etc., and then dry with a dish towel. No Tuff-Cloth, no WD-40, and no rust.

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jharden bet me to the Qtips.
I wash mine in hot water, scrub with toothbrush, dry, and spray with Remoil (read the post about the glorious smell). If I'm at work, I use WD40 and high pressure air.
I disassemble my AFCK and rub everything down, so I, too, fall into the category of "real man"
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SVTBate,

If the problem is inorganic, (adhesives, contaminated lubricant, etc) you may have to disassemble. Sound and feel will will let you know if this is the case.

I use WD-40 to wash the parts, not a lubricant, just a cheap wash. Most of my knives have metal handles, be careful with wood, bone or stag, they may discolor. Wash with water and dry, I put mine on my gas stove...over the pilot to dry.

Reassemble and using your favorite lubricant and...voila!

 
You blow dry your knives??!!!
Wow... I usually wash & dry them like silverware.
The only one that gets oiled is my carbon steel fishing knife (saltwater, you know).
Anything going out of the rotatiion gets sentry cloth, just for storage.
Never any rust problems...YMMV

Blow dryers, really?
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Wow, are these users or case queens we are talking about there.

Carbon steels and knives exposed to corrosives are excepted but my oh my, just use em and rinse em. A stainless steel folder goes in the dishwasher, on a good day, and gets some WD-40 and maybe CRC/Breakfree, then back to service. These are knives for cryin' out loud, not high maintainance women!

Carbon steels and hunting knives get the full treatment. In other words, I let them get all foo foo-ed up. They get hot water and Dawn, dried, WD-40'ed and oil wiped (maybe Tuff Cloth or equivalent) and then carefully stowed.

Like they said in Basic Training, "You stuff your face, you schlop your face and you get the hell back out there!"
 
What am I missing here - You guys really wash your knives ?

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Originally posted by Walt Welch:
Tuf-Glide is the active ingredient in the odorless mineral spirit carrier in Tuf-Cloth. It is a thin film corrosion inhibitor. Most people find it to be insufficient in a high stress application such as a pivot pin. Especially Sebenza owners (I've no idea why).
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I've no idea either, but I definitely agree with that one. Tuf-Glide works great on my CS Voyager and Spyderco Rescue, but for my Sebenza I use Tri-Flo. Still wipe down the blade of the Sebenza with a Tuf-Cloth to clean it occasionally, though.
 
Woman-Knife Hell at least a good knife will not let you down!
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Well not as often!
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"To strive to seek to find and not to yield"
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This is my procedure:
1. Rinse with as hot water as possible
2. Dry with a non-fibrous cotton towel
3. Blow with a dryer
4. Wait until the knife feels cold
5. Wipe the blade with a piece of chamois
6. Tuf Cloth
7. Tuf Glide

That´s it. However I don´t do this every time. Just when the knife is in need.
 
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