Thank you, everyone, for all the information. This was so much more
helpful than a sentence saying, "Saw tops should be maintained with paste
wax."
Hopefully this weekend, I'll get that taken care of. Luckily, it has very
little rust, only what has accumulated over 20 years from normal air
moisture and lack of use and is more a discoloration than rust. I'll use
a fine steel wool to take that off and use the wax. It has given me much
good service in the past and surely will in the future and deserves to
have some tender loving care.
Thank you, again.
Glenna
[email protected] writes:
>Rob--->who is feeling pretty good today knowing that his knee-lube
>appointment was moved from Aug 23 2005 to January 27 2005.
Good luck, Rob, for an accurate diagnosis, excellent treatment, and
extremely good results.
>
Glenna Rose wrote:
> Thank you, everyone, for all the information. This was so much more
> helpful than a sentence saying, "Saw tops should be maintained with paste
> wax."
Put me down for a me five or a me ten or whatever on Johnson's. My top is a
year old now, and I can see my face in it if I angle myself right. This in
an environment where tools used to turn into rust buckets overnight, before
I started waxing everything, and keeping a cheap box fan running 24/7 to
keep the air stirred up.
Just to clear up the myth about scarcity, the stuff is available all over
the place. I bought my last can at Wal-Mart two weeks ago, and they had a
jillion more of them. We think the myth started because they stopped
selling the stuff in Kanukisan. But you're not a Kanukistani, are you?
(Canadian, if you don't get the wreckfrence.)
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Patriarch wrote:
> If it's smooth, and not rusty, there's really no reason to scrub it
> aggressively. Bright and shiney really doesn't cut any better, with saw
> tops.
>
> Sharp blades, and well aligned fences count for a lot more.
>
> That's where I'd spend my time.
You're a poor sport. It's all about gleaming. Gleaming makes the saw blade
sharper. Gleaming makes the fence straighter. Gleaming makes the finish
stick better. Gleaming makes the saw cut faster. Gleaming is good. I
like gleaming. :)
(Although I used a friend's saw once that was covered in stable dark brown
rust that had been burnished to a sort of rusty shine with use, and it cut
just fine. I think in days of yore they use to just accept the inevitable
and encourage things to develop a stable rust. Now, however, it's the 21st
century, and we have the chemical magic necessary to promulgate gleaming.
Gleaming is good. I like gleaming. :) )
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Patriarch wrote:
>> necessary to promulgate gleaming. Gleaming is good. I like gleaming.
>> :) )
> BS. I saw your posts on cleaning and laundry. ;-)
If the floors, counters, and laundry were made out of cast iron, I'd want
'em gleaming. :)
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http://rosegarden.sourceforge.net/tutorial/
In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] (Glenna Rose) wrote:
> Thank you, everyone, for all the information. This was so much more
> helpful than a sentence saying, "Saw tops should be maintained with paste
> wax."
>
> Hopefully this weekend, I'll get that taken care of. Luckily, it has very
> little rust, only what has accumulated over 20 years from normal air
> moisture and lack of use and is more a discoloration than rust. I'll use
> a fine steel wool to take that off and use the wax. It has given me much
> good service in the past and surely will in the future and deserves to
> have some tender loving care.
>
> Thank you, again.
>
> Glenna
In case you're still looking, Johnson's paste wax is available at Fred's
(you're in Portland, right?) with the other floor products. Look down by
the floor, since Johnson's doesn't seem to pay for eye-level shelf space.
PDX David
[email protected] (Glenna Rose) wrote in
news:[email protected]:
<snip>
> Hopefully this weekend, I'll get that taken care of. Luckily, it has
> very little rust, only what has accumulated over 20 years from normal
> air moisture and lack of use and is more a discoloration than rust.
> I'll use a fine steel wool to take that off and use the wax. It has
> given me much good service in the past and surely will in the future
> and deserves to have some tender loving care.
>
If it's smooth, and not rusty, there's really no reason to scrub it
aggressively. Bright and shiney really doesn't cut any better, with saw
tops.
Sharp blades, and well aligned fences count for a lot more.
That's where I'd spend my time.
Patriarch
Silvan <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Patriarch wrote:
>
>> If it's smooth, and not rusty, there's really no reason to scrub it
>> aggressively. Bright and shiney really doesn't cut any better, with
>> saw tops.
>>
>> Sharp blades, and well aligned fences count for a lot more.
>>
>> That's where I'd spend my time.
>
> You're a poor sport. It's all about gleaming. Gleaming makes the saw
> blade sharper. Gleaming makes the fence straighter. Gleaming makes
> the finish stick better. Gleaming makes the saw cut faster. Gleaming
> is good. I like gleaming. :)
>
> (Although I used a friend's saw once that was covered in stable dark
> brown rust that had been burnished to a sort of rusty shine with use,
> and it cut just fine. I think in days of yore they use to just accept
> the inevitable and encourage things to develop a stable rust. Now,
> however, it's the 21st century, and we have the chemical magic
> necessary to promulgate gleaming. Gleaming is good. I like gleaming.
> :) )
>
BS. I saw your posts on cleaning and laundry. ;-)
Patriarch