I use water/alcohol mix in a lab wash bottle.
This thread makes me wonder if anyone's tried non-drying oil/alcohol mix on their Arkansas or hard ceramic stones.
I use water/alcohol mix in a lab wash bottle.
How's isopropyl alcohol as compared to denatured?
How do you all keep the bases clean when the lubricant is running all over? Or is the cleanup after just part of the process?
How do you all keep the bases clean when the lubricant is running all over? Or is the cleanup after just part of the process?
Just one guy's method, but I spray the water/soap mixture on the diamond stone, use it, then wipe the edge down with a rag before I move up to the next grit. I've never had a problem with contamination. You'll see the slight amount of metal that's removed on the rag as a almost black mark.How do you all keep the bases clean when the lubricant is running all over? Or is the cleanup after just part of the process?
I think I'll try that next time. I've been spraying directly on my skis which may be the issue.Just one guy's method, but I spray the water/soap mixture on the diamond stone, use it, then wipe the edge down with a rag before I move up to the next grit. I've never had a problem with contamination. You'll see the slight amount of metal that's removed on the rag as a almost black mark.
Well, water and soap are pretty cheap even for those of us on a fixed income...................wasteful and messy
Well, water and soap are pretty cheap even for those of us on a fixed income...................
Anyone used Gigaglide?
I use water/alcohol mix in a lab wash bottle. Easier to direct than a spray bottle. Something like this:
Dip the stones! Like this.
If you're using water/alcohol/soap mixture, meaning not oil, then that is not going to dirty your base in and of itself. What will dirty our base, and you'll really see it in a non-black base, is the metal filings suspended in the lubricant that is getting under your file guide's base plate. I have a yellow base on some of my skis and it really shows up. To mitigate that staining wipe your edge down often as you diamond stone. I dip my diamond stones in my water/alcohol/soap mixture often as I use them. I usually wipe with a fiberlene shop towel after every pass down the ski with a diamond stone. The black slurry mess is evident in the shop towel.How do you all keep the bases clean when the lubricant is running all over? Or is the cleanup after just part of the process?
Was only dicking about.For diamond stones? Or ski sidewalls? I was thinking of trying it on the bamboo sidewalls of some old RAMPs but ...low priority.
Was only dicking about.
But still you forced a confession.I figured