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16-Jan-2002
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bonsaiTALK Journeyman
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Re: Cleaning Bonsai Tools
Oi... trying to learn the shaping, and the pruninig, and the growing, and repotting, and the jinning, and the wiring, and the root pruning and now i even gotta worry bout cleaning, sterilizing, and preservation of the tools? Oh my! So much to learn! I'm so glad i found you all so you can help me learn all the things i never would have known, or even thought of for that matter.
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16-Jan-2002
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Re: Cleaning Bonsai Tools
Al was joking about the Cosmolene, Sara, and you have my permission not to maintain or sanitize any tool you don't actually own yet.
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5-Apr-2002
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bonsaiTALK Master Craftsman
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Re: Cleaning Bonsai Tools
I wash them under the faucet, dry them with a rag and squirt a few drops of baby oil on the moving parts and rub them with the cloth again.
For cleaning that hard sap, and eraser works fine.
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5-Apr-2002
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Re: Cleaning Bonsai Tools
I tried the hair dryer technique earlier this week and it works great with a WD-40 chaser
Don't tell Kathy! :-X
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23-May-2002
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Re: Cleaning Bonsai Tools
this is an old thread i guess - but i just had to reply for all the tool abusers out there....
Listening to you guys keeping your tools all neat and clean and oiled...wow I have never cleaned a bonsai tool other than in a bucket of water or with an old rag...i have never oiled a tool with wd40 or anything else. My tools mostly live outside 24-7 all year but sometimes they get thrown in the tool tub. I have dug up bonsai tools that got lost under repotting soil weeks after i lost em. I have never bleached or sanatized a tool yet. I wonder why my husband has banned me from the tool shed. My advise on this matter of tool maintenance is thus...buy the best quality stainless steel laminated tools that you can afford and be done with it. oh yeah, i do use my shears to cut wire too... yours in tool maintenance Jules |
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23-May-2002
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Re: Cleaning Bonsai Tools
Jules,
As an old aircraft mechanic you had me in deep despair over the care of your tools. Actually my wife does about the same thing. But, hey, if it works for you, more power to you! The best thing I have found to get pine tar off the tools is paint thinner or turpentine. I have tried Goo Gone and OOPS which are OK but the turpentine is cheap and does a great job. It just smells worse than the other stuff. I keep everything in a plastic tool box that with a lift out tray and it works great.
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