cleaning needles

[Choreboy]

My sewing needles bind in fabric because they have rust spots. I am told I can remove the rust. How?

[Bonnie]

You've got to be joking. Buy yourself some new needles.

[Dawn]

Soak overnight in a strong tea solution, rinse, dry and remove last traces by sewing a thick paper towel.

[Choreboy]

[Choreboy]

How can I remember not to drink it?

[Phisherman]

[Choreboy]

[Dawn]

oops!

[Barbecue Bob]

My fault. I should have put up a troll alert.

[Sweep]

how?

[Sweep]

dont worry Dawn, I ruined my stew pan today. It was a pain to clean so good riddance to it.

[Dawn]

Did you burn it?

[Sweep]

no. I used it to empty water from my fish tank and put the fish into another tank. the water was green/dirty so i put this sodium percarbonate/sodium carbonate mix into the pan with hot water to disinfect. then i found some cups and spoons stained so i put them in. next day the pan was black in places the cups rested on. the pan has to be wire wooled every use its aluminium and it would take forever with black stains so i dumped it.

[Choreboy]

The rust spots on my needles were too small to notice. Now they're completely corroded.

I used only a little water to make the tea strong. When it boiled I put a bag in and turned the burner down. When I checked in five minutes, somebody had turned the burner to high. The pan's coating had blistered.

[Mrs Bonk]

You use your STEW pan to aid in cleaning a fish tank ! Sweep, I am horrified at you. To waste your pan because you are too lazy to give it a thorough cleaning is disgusting. If I could I would be at your house with my trusty Brillo and clean it up then pass it on to a charity shop for the needy. All very well dumping the pan in summer but I think you'll regret your actions when winter comes around again and your mind turns to scrag and dumplings but you find nothing to cook it in.

[Mrs Bonk]

Cheap needles will always be found out in the end. Dawn did you a big favour. They would never have been any good.

Cheap pans! I wonder who that "someone" could be? You can't blame Gary this time!

[Barbecue Bob]

Does he have an alibi?

[Gregory Morrow]

Well Mrs. B. I am quite frankly under the impression that this "Choreboy" is putting us on...

One can only imagine if this were the days of crank gramaphones when one had to change gramaphone needles continually - she would be in a constant state of eroded needle uproar!

[jes]

I clean needles with the little emery bag attached to the tomato pin cushion.

It's super fine sand and cleans off the yukkies.

Joan

[Choreboy]

Where did you get your little emery bag? Dawn's going to feel even worse about her bad advice!