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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Mar 18, 2020 14:17:36 GMT -5
Well we will call it lunch hour. Working from home for the next few weeks and decided to clean out the new to me 18" saw for the first time today. When I got the saw it already had oil in it but I did not realize under that oil was a pretty solid 1" to 1 1/2" thick layer of muck. Pretty messy job scraping all of that out. Hopefully if I do more regular clean outs they wont be as bad. I was originally thinking I would install a 90 and a valve for easier clean outs but now I realize the straight pipe makes it much easier to clear jams of rock debris and muck. The old oil is in the transfer bucket now to be filtered but with temps still getting down to the 30'S here the oil will take a long time drip through.   I never clean saws spotless. Just a quick rinse of the vise, rails and feed screw. First few cuts and it will be a mess again anyway.  I have learned from other saws to always dump oil-dri down before I start a clean out. Better safe then sorry.  Chuck |
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Mar 19, 2020 8:29:03 GMT -5
Looks good Chuck. You might not have cleaned it spotless but it looks pretty damn close 👍
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Mar 19, 2020 10:07:55 GMT -5
Thanks. My general rule of thumb is to clean the vise, rails and feed screw. A cheap nylon brush works pretty good. I just dump some clean mineral oil into an open container and then keep dipping the brush into that when scrubbing.  Chuck |
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NRG
fully equipped rock polisher
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Post by NRG on Mar 26, 2020 21:06:43 GMT -5
Glad to learn you can work from home.
I'd love to muck a saw today!!
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Post by woodman on Mar 26, 2020 22:07:47 GMT -5
In my 18 and 24 inch saws I use used ATF and it never get like this, solids settle out real good and does stay pretty clean. smells a bit bad for a cut or two and then gets better. on another plus side it does not mist at all. I do wear rubber gloves all the time tho, why push my luck!
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70karmann
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by 70karmann on Mar 29, 2020 15:41:54 GMT -5
Looks good. I also use oil dri as well as placing cardboard down. The card board soaks up spills quite well and easy clean up.
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70karmann
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by 70karmann on Mar 29, 2020 15:42:19 GMT -5
Looks good. I also use oil dri as well as placing cardboard down. The card board soaks up spills quite well and easy clean up.
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Mar 29, 2020 18:46:38 GMT -5
For those of you who live in colder locales, there's a pretty good way to clean dirty oil that works a lot faster. Taught to me by a past president of our club who has since passed on. I didn't believe it would work as well as he said, but I tried it. Heh - it worked.
Mix some water in with the mucky oil, stir it vigorously with a paint mixer on a drill if you have one, and let it separate. The particulates will settle out into the water, with the oil on top. Leave it out overnight to freeze, and then just dump the oil off the top of the ice.
It does work. We just don't have a lot of nights here where it gets cold enough. I just filter like most people do.
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rixrocks
having dreams about rocks
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Post by rixrocks on Apr 17, 2020 10:23:38 GMT -5
For those of you who live in colder locales, there's a pretty good way to clean dirty oil that works a lot faster. Taught to me by a past president of our club who has since passed on. I didn't believe it would work as well as he said, but I tried it. Heh - it worked.
Mix some water in with the mucky oil, stir it vigorously with a paint mixer on a drill if you have one, and let it separate. The particulates will settle out into the water, with the oil on top. Leave it out overnight to freeze, and then just dump the oil off the top of the ice.
It does work. We just don't have a lot of nights here where it gets cold enough. I just filter like most people do.
I just cleaned out my slab saw for the first time Monday and I have the oil filtering. There's a lot of muck that's at the bottom of the bucket now and I wonder if the oil can seep past it to drain effectively. I'm curious as how long it will actually take for it to filter through. |
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