How To Clean Saw Blades With Vinegar

Posted December one, 2008

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While pegging the joints in a Shaker stepback I built for the Feb 2009 outcome of Pop Woodworking, I used a $100 affluent-cutting saw. It'due south a darn nice saw. Unless one clogs the teeth with glue.

Now, I didn't intend to brand it look as if I were trying to cover up my crime. I meant to ask Christopher Schwarz how best to clean the yellow glue out of its tiny picayune teeth. But he was out that day, I got distracted with other stuff, and the saw ended upwards back in the rack, gunk and all.

Well-nigh two weeks later, it was summarily brought to my attending that this pricey saw was now unusable. But Chris suggested a solution (curt of ownership a new saw), and it worked. I poured white vinegar into a shallow Pyrex pan and soaked the gunked-upwards teeth for a half-hour or and then, then I went to piece of work with an old toothbrush. It took some serious scrubbing, simply the vinegar softened the stale glue enough to permit me to scrub it out, molar by molar. To speed upwardly the process, you could estrus the vinegar in a microwave, but that would increment the aroma. (After a visit from our human resources department during the last time we sprayed a finish, well, we endeavor to avoid stinky things as much every bit possible.)

Afterwards the teeth were cleaned, I rinsed the vinegar away and wiped the blade with jojoba oil. The blade lost some of its shiny luster, but the teeth cutting, and that's $100 I can spend on shoes. Or on a couple new Hock aeroplane blades.

– Megan Fitzpatrick

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