[Jewelry making - Article 00471] - Re: [Orchid] All that oil?

[Chuck Hunner]

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    All the steel tools that I've ever bought have come with a coating
    of oil or grease(cosmolene, Dad used to call it). I keep a small,
    cheap paint brush on top of a small jar. Inside the jar is some
    mineral spirits (kerosene works too). When I get a new tool, I lay
    out some news papers in a well ventilated area, put on my rubber
    gloves and paint a good coat of the solvent onto the tool. It
    dissolves the grease so I can easily wipe it off with paper towels. 

    I keep light machine oil around to coat the newly cleaned tool as
    Peter advised. I usually wipe my steel hammers and stakes down with
    the light oil after each use. 

    I also put the oily paper towels in the trash outside as they may
    spontaneously combust if crammed into one of my shop garbage cans. 

chuck in Asheville, NC

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