How do you clean tablesaw blade?

[Roy Neudecker]

I use Simple Green. It's fast. And, easy to get around the corner at the grocery store.

Roy

[Phisherman]

I clean my table saw blade by placing it in a round plastic auto oil pan, spraying it with oven cleaner, waiting 5 minutes, brushing with an old toothbrush and rinsing well in clear water. I clean it outdoors. The quality of a rip cut is (surprisingly) improved after cleaning.

[Phisherman]

The oven cleaner will remove the CMT lettering too (but so what). Mark down the information before cleaning the blade.

[Tom Hintz]

Not so. There is no linkage to any product in the story. When folks like Frued say there are substances you should not use on a blade, I think that is worthy of putting in a story, and listening to. There are too many alternatives available to go ahead and use caustic cleaners.

I do wish I was making all this money some seem so sure I am though!

Tom Hintz

[Cape Cod Bob]

It's been many years and even more threads since Simple Green or similar cleaners was recommended by many to clean blades. If non-caustics do the job, why would anyone who's read this same thread many times continue to use lye/oven cleaner?? Do you have a stockpile of oven cleaner? Never wanted to try something else? Disagree and think lye works better? Inquiring minds want to know.

[George E. Cawthon]

[B a r r y B u r k e J r .]

Sometimes Simple Green just dosen't cut it.

I ALWAYS use green chemicals first, for my own health. Sometimes the stronger stuff is necessary. I've cleaned blades with oven cleaner, simple green, and citrus cleaners. If someone has a can of oven cleaner handy, I don't think they really need to run out and buy something else to clean a blade.

Only on real tough stuff. "Better" is a bad descriptor, "faster" is better.

Barry

[Courtney Mainord]

Castrol Super Clean has worked well for me on saw blades and router bits.

[John Crea]

Use straight Simple Green and let it soak for a while

Some folks say they have good results with Oven Cleaners, but I tend to be leery of str>I see the stuff advertised in the woodworking catalogs but was wondering

[DCH]

n [e-mail] (Nate Perkins) wrote in news: [e-mail]:

I bought a bottle of stuff called, CMT formula 2050, at highland hardware, safe for your hands, and works like a champ, spray on, and wait a minute or two and wipe off, and the pitch is gone...I saved a few tablesaw blades using it...

Hope this helps...

DCH

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[David Binkowski]

One thing I noticed about the Rockler kit was the brush started coming apart. I lost about 12 or more bristles when cleaning the gullets. Then again its not a huge complaint, brass brushes are cheap and I already had a plastic handled one that I know won't come apart...

Other than that the kit worked okay.