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Post by Bleys on Jul 15, 2011 10:59:54 GMT
Hi!
I have a bit of a problem. The inside of my katana's saya is full of dust and tiny pieces of wood. Every time I unsheathe the blade is covered by it. There's not a lot of it but it's annoying, specially when the blade is oiled, then it picks up everything.
I have tried tapping it gently and some of the dust has come out but that seems like an endless action.
Should I use compressed air or does anyone have any good methods?
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Post by Elheru Aran on Jul 15, 2011 14:22:47 GMT
Compressed air may just blow it all into the end. What I'd do is unwrap a wire coat-hanger, twist the end into a small loop (like 3/16" interior diameter or so), and stick a cotton ball through that loop, then jam it up the saya and pull it out. Rinse and repeat, like washing a baby bottle if you have any experience with that...
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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 15, 2011 17:42:36 GMT
Almost the same thing I was going to suggest except a few key differences. Don't use a cotton ball- that will catch on all the little slivers in ther and tear itself up leaving little bits of cotton in there. Use something with more heft to it like a piece of cotton cloth. Make sure to tie it to the looped end of the hanger so there is no sharp/pointy bit of the hanger able to scratch the inside ofthe saya. Also don't rinse it - water in the saya will be a much worse problem than wood flakes. I it gets dirty use a new piece.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2011 23:21:59 GMT
I have a couple methods - cleaning rod for a rifle with cotton patches, or compressed air can with a tube pushed all the way to the end, so you're forcing air from the inside the the outside..
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Post by SeanF on Jul 16, 2011 1:22:06 GMT
Depends how much compressed air you use. If you were to blow at it with 100psi from a air compressor you are just about guaranteed to get an extremely violent reaction that will send everything in there blasting up through the top. Or at the very least dislodge it enough for it to fall out. It really just depends on what type of air compressor you have access to.
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Post by Tyler on Jul 16, 2011 1:39:09 GMT
What i did was similar to what A_J said with a cleaning rod for a rifle. except i tore up an old t - shirt and put it through the end loop and ran it through the saya quite a few times. I can be a perfectionist sometimes so it took me a while to be satisfied with the job but it did a pretty good job at it.
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Post by Bleys on Jul 16, 2011 16:42:52 GMT
Thank you for your advice.
I tried the wire + cotton ball method, while it cleaned out all the little bits, it left tiny shreds of it inside.
I'll try the cloth version next, then I think I'll get it nice and clean then.
My brother is a marksman so I think he may have something for cleaning the barrels of rifles, perhaps a brush of some sort.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 16, 2011 16:47:15 GMT
True, but I don't use, nor even have a compressor  - just canned air for cleaning electronics. |
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Post by Lobster Hunter on Jul 16, 2011 17:30:09 GMT
I use coat hanger wire wrapped with cloth with the opening of the saya oriented down. I then vacuum it out using a narrow vacuum attachment while tapping the saya.
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Post by Elheru Aran on Jul 17, 2011 0:45:18 GMT
Just to clarify, by 'rinse and repeat' I was using it as an expression, not to mean you should actually pour water down the saya...
Good catch on the cloth idea though rather than cotton ball, was assuming the inside of the saya would be smooth enough that there would be few splinters to catch the cotton. Using a rifle cleaning stick would work fine too. The general idea is basically to stick something up there, really, and get it back out... ish?
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Post by chrisperoni on Jul 17, 2011 3:40:45 GMT
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aaaanndd, that's what she said.
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- just canned air for cleaning electronics.
