Windex substitute

Bill DeShivs

Bill DeShivs

Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
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I see a lot of you use Windex for neutralizing acids.
Ammonia is the active ingredient in Windex. You can just mix ammonia and water in your spray bottles. It's a lot cheaper. Cleans glass, too!
 
I think most of them don't want their wives or girlfriends to know they need yet ANOTHER chemical for their shop.
 
Ammonia's pretty inexpensive and is handy to have around the house anyway. I vote yes :)
 
Well it's a dollar, like everything else in the store..... I'll spend a dollar to get a spray bottle and not having to mix it up.
 
I have used the ammonia mixed pretty strong 1 part ammonia and 4 parts water. I just had it in a tube and soaked my knives ins after the etch. I also did this with TSP. Both worked just fine. Now I have gone with the old windex. It is just easier for me to grab a bottle off the shelf and it lasts for along time. I think I would save about 50 cents a bottle so not worth it for me to have the ammonia around. I buy the huge COSTCO size bottles of windex for about $10 and will fill a spray bottle about 5 times.
 
I boil my blades in a baking soda solution after etching which sets the black oxide so it does not rub off AND neutralizes the acid. I then give it a freshwater rinse and an alcohol rinse

-Page
 
sunshadow said:
I boil my blades in a baking soda solution after etching which sets the black oxide so it does not rub off AND neutralizes the acid. I then give it a freshwater rinse and an alcohol rinse

-Page
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What Page said.

If you need to find something any cheaper than baking soda, you're in a more serious hurt than anyone here's going to be able to help you out of! :D
 
Matthew Gregory said:
What Page said.

If you need to find something any cheaper than baking soda, you're in a more serious hurt than anyone here's going to be able to help you out of! :D
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Well you see its like this....... Tax Time at the OK Corral...... After taxes due on my retirement, my wife's retirement AND taxing my Not-so-Social-Security, I have to come up with an additional 6 grand this year.

Would anyone want to go 50/50 on a box of baking soda (if I can get a loan of course) ? :D

Robert, the tax payer
 
Robert, I'd offer to send you a box of baking soda, but I can't afford to pay the shipping! :D
 
I figured it might be worth sharing. I use a lot of ammonia in my shop.
 
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