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Post by applejack on Jul 29, 2015 20:40:05 GMT
I may sound like a fool for asking this but I am going to. Ok I was doing my once a 21 days cleaning and oiling of my swords(If they have not been used in 21 days I clean and reoil them). I 1st clean the blade off with 70% Isopropyl Alcohol(clean paper towel for each blade) and then I use one white cotton face pad cover on one side in mineral oil to wipe down the blade. I saw one of my blades had rust on them and I would like to know if using the same cotton pad and all of them can transfer the rust from one sword to the other? Most times I use a clean paper towel for each blade but I was in a hurry.
The 3 swords I used the same pad on are not in sheath just sitting in sword bags.
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Post by DangerDan on Jul 30, 2015 6:20:01 GMT
I don't think the 1 time would do any harm, but I'd personally make the sword with a little rust the last one in line if they share a paper towel again. I don't think it's that big a deal, but the extra precaution couldn't hurt right?
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Post by DangerDan on Jul 30, 2015 6:21:47 GMT
And don't feel like a fool. The only foolish question is the one not asked. "And knowing is half the battle. GI Joe!"
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Post by applejack on Aug 4, 2015 21:30:51 GMT
thanks, I am kind of OCD about some things and I feel bad about small stuff like that more then I would about big stuff like if someone was to call a ethnic slur I don't even thing about but rust on my blade was running in my mind like a rat on a wheel.
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Post by themagicalmark on Apr 25, 2016 16:03:29 GMT
Rust isnt like a "disease" the only way it could transfer rust would be if it was directly on another blade in a moist environment.
Id recommend coating your blades in Renascence Wax, its a hardening microcrystaline wax polish that will seal the blade from the elements.
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Post by aussie-rabbit on Apr 25, 2016 16:30:49 GMT
Rust isnt like a "disease" the only way it could transfer rust would be if it was directly on another blade in a moist environment. Id recommend coating your blades in Renascence Wax, its a hardening microcrystaline wax polish that will seal the blade from the elements. Rust is like bacteria - to survive rust needs 3 things, oxygen present in the air, moisture also present in the air and iron, if you successfully remove one of these rust cannot form. So to keep your swords or to store them for a considerable time you get a plastic 44 gal/200l drum with a large screw top lid, like the ones they keep concentrated fruit juice in, fill with you swords the add a lump of dry ice (carbon dioxide), wait till the fumes are flowing over the top and screw the lid down, if the lid has a rubber ring seal your good to go! Ps. keep the plastic drum away from sunlight and you can know your great, great, great grand kids will still have shiny sharps
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Post by Dave Kelly on Apr 26, 2016 6:22:41 GMT
Rust isnt like a "disease" the only way it could transfer rust would be if it was directly on another blade in a moist environment. Id recommend coating your blades in Renascence Wax, its a hardening microcrystaline wax polish that will seal the blade from the elements. Rust is like bacteria - to survive rust needs 3 things, oxygen present in the air, moisture also present in the air and iron, if you successfully remove one of these rust cannot form. So to keep your swords or to store them for a considerable time you get a plastic 44 gal/200l drum with a large screw top lid, like the ones they keep concentrated fruit juice in, fill with you swords the add a lump of dry ice (carbon dioxide), wait till the fumes are flowing over the top and screw the lid down, if the lid has a rubber ring seal your good to go! Ps. keep the plastic drum away from sunlight and you can know your great, great, great grand kids will still have shiny sharps :) You're really appealing to the OCD side of this point, eh? I was thinking along the lines of, "Rust isn't contagious, but if you have a cold, don't sneeze on your blades; they might catch distemper." ( Taaa, tum-tum; pissssssh.)
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Post by themagicalmark on Apr 27, 2016 0:20:35 GMT
Rust isnt like a "disease" the only way it could transfer rust would be if it was directly on another blade in a moist environment. Id recommend coating your blades in Renascence Wax, its a hardening microcrystaline wax polish that will seal the blade from the elements. Rust is like bacteria - to survive rust needs 3 things, oxygen present in the air, moisture also present in the air and iron, if you successfully remove one of these rust cannot form. Hence the wax, that would remove oxygen and moisture from the equation.
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Post by svante on Apr 29, 2016 0:58:25 GMT
Rust is like ebola it spreads like mad if your not careful!
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