cleaning methods

[anorexicpillow]

Hello all im wondering what your cleaning methods are, i need a way of cleaning my knife that if i must use it to accompany my fork i wont be poisoned. thanks in advance byee

[Vincent]

soap and hot water.

I use, WD-40, it gets off everything. displaced the water.

But I dont use my knives near ingestable things.

[anorexicpillow]

yeah currently i soak it in hot soapy water, and then use WD-40 and then rince but im afraid that that isnt good for my health i would like a method that i wont be afriad to eat off the knife i gave the treatment to

[Titus]

You can use a cleaner like Pyrox-D for muzzleloaders. It cleans knives very well. It is non toxic, but it is still good to make sure that the blade is dry before cutting food with the knife. I don't think that it tastes good.

[Vincent]

id go with soap and hot water and a safe scrub. be careful and only scrun 1 way. dont go up and down.

[TheMikeOfSteel]

If you want an oil that is safe to use around food, I'd say use Mineral Oil. I first heard about it on this site, and I must say that it works very good.
It's an "intestinal lubricant" (you can figure out what it's used for...), but it works well on knives.
I bought a hair clipper set from a department store, and it came with a little tube of mineral oil in the box to be used to lubricate the blades - so I imagine its not that uncommon for it to be used on cutting tools.

[spydutch]

To clean my knives I use White Lightning Clean Steak. My H1 knives I just put in the dishwasher.

[Ritt]

Hot soapy water and old toothbrush, then blow dryer to make sure I get all the water out (and also because for some reason it very mildly irks my wife when I use her hair dryer on my knives, and for some reason I find that amusing). Once the knife is nice and warm and dry, just a touch of militec on the pivot, probably less than a drop. Let it sit overnight, good wipe-down in the morning, and I'm out the door.

[Vincent]

Hot soapy water and old toothbrush, then blow dryer to make sure I get all the water out (and also because for some reason it very mildly irks my wife when I use her hair dryer on my knives, and for some reason I find that amusing). Once the knife is nice and warm and dry, just a touch of militec on the pivot, probably less than a drop. Let it sit overnight, good wipe-down in the morning, and I'm out the door.

good advice on the tooth brush. Keep your hands away from the blade when cleaning.

Its danger.

[d.g.g]

Don't sweat the small stuff!

I would just clean the knife and wipe the oil off it cut up the food and chew away.

I think there are probably more chemicals and pesticides and other junk in the food than you would ever get from a clean knife with a tiny spec of oil on it.

[JD Spydo]

I do like all of the above cleaning methods and have implemented a few of those myself. I use the hot soapy water but I use a soap called "Miracle II" which is totally non corrosive. I have a question for all of you concerning the cleaning and rejuvenating G-10.

Now the other day I dug out some old Spyders with G-10 handles and I used some "Ballistol" that I bought from SFO. It seems to have done a pretty decent job as far as rejuvenating the G-10 and making it look sort of fresh again. If any of you have any ideas on Cleaning & rejuvenating faded G-10 or just putting something on G-10 to preserve it I would appreciate knowning about as well as others I know would.

I have heard that simple mineral oil helps but I have not up until now found anything that works to restore the color like this Ballistol does. I am hoping to find a chemical or compound that is not a pertroleum based solvent to hopefully work on it. :spyder:

[BaldBlade]

I use GunScrubber to spray out the inside of my folders. This stuff really gets it clean without disassembly. When finished I let it dry and re-oil with Millitech and rub a little into the G10.

Just be careful when using on other knives (other than Spyderco) as some of them use plastic parts & GunScrubber melts plastic like crazy!

[rastus]

If it was FRN, regardless of blade steel, I'd open it up halfway and put it in the dishwasher; oil the pivot. I never had any problems doing this.
Now. I wait for a job (day or two at the most) where I have to adjust rotor heads, the ones that shoot about 30', and just blast out the whole knife, opening and closing it. A dab of Rem-oil for the pivot, but most people probably don't see rotors that often :D .
Soapy water and a toothbrush with a tooth pick for the really tight areas works for me.
Somehow, I'v never had any rust or sorrosion problems with any :spyder: steel. Maybe thats because of .....? :confused:
On any given day, my EDC's get wet 8+ times and just clipped back in my pockets. Maybe if I carried IWB the habanero-sweat would do something :D .
---Tom

[Stormdrane]

A good hot water and soap bath, dry well, and INOX for lubrication, which is non toxic, so your next meal cut with your knife won't be your last. :cool:

[J Smith]

I just can't see how any of the lube from the drop or 2 on the pivot would get into food cut with the knife and even if it did I would think it would be such a tiny amount as to not hurt you.
Of coarse I am not one to load down a knife with lube from one end to another.I just but a couple drops of Militec-1 on the pivot and a light coat on the blade and then wipe the blade off dry.I have seen people carring knives that I would not really want to touch much less cut food with because of all the oil on it.

[Michael Cook]

:spyder: Hot soapy water then tuf-glide. :spyder: