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Does anyone know of a good way/product for cleaning resin and deposits from router cutters ?

Many Thanks

Russell

Oven cleaner...so I've heard, but never tried it.

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JJ
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Spray on oven cleaner, don't get it in your eyes

Works great on circular saw blades and sanding belts too.

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tim...
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also get good ventilation, oven cleaners are awful stuff for your lungs.

You can use "Renuzit"...a liquid that is used for removing all the resin build up in sanding belts. And it has nowhere near the nose burning effect you get from oven cleaner. I believe it is an alkiline based solution that you mix 50-50 with water.
Check with any good supplier of sanding belts.

I haven't tried it yet, but I've read in several sources that a cleaner called "Simple Green" works very well for getting the gunk off of bits and blades. It looks much safer than oven cleaner.CarltonM38755.0718981481

Russel, Just use WD 40 and a rag. Lacquer Thinner will work also but is more expensive. I thought of oven cleaner quite a few times and it will work fine but you don't really need it for the small surface of a router bit.

Shane

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Hi All,

I've used the Simple Green to clean saw blades, etc... and it seems to work pretty good. I just let the blade or bit soak in the full strength stuff for a couple of hours and you're good to go. I'm sure it doesn't work as well as the commercial stuff but its pretty good by me. The one problem that I've found with it is that you need to make sure to get all of it dried off before you put your cleaned item away because the Simple-Green seems to promote rust pretty well. I just rinse the blade/bit off and then hit it with a hair drier and then add some Camilla oil and it seems to work pretty good.

Tom Wolf

Will oven cleaner attack the red Teflon finish on Freud saw blades?

Russell, I use the CMT blade & bit cleaner, it's non toxic and very effective, not cheap but I'm using the same bottle I had five years ago. Keep clear of oven cleaner, it contains chemicals the H&S exec would require me to use in a fume cabinet in the lab, nasty stuff.

Axminster has the CMT cleaner (part No 998001) ?12.38.

Colin

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Thanks Guys appreciatte the help.

[QUOTE=Daniel M] Will oven cleaner attack the red Teflon finish on Freud saw blades?[/QUOTE]
Nope, nor will it eat the paint on other blades.

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tim...
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Pine sol works well

Simple Green is the way to go IMHO. I did a bunch of research on this a while back. You can buy one of the task specific cleaners - they work just fine, but you will pay considerably more for them than for Simple Green.

I recommend NOT using oven cleaner. The information I dug up was that the caustic nature of these products can damage the brazing holding the carbide cutting edges on blades/bits. I've also heard the theory (can't support this with fact, but it kinda makes sense) that oven cleaners can also slightly etch the cutting edges of tools. Probably not a good thing! On bits with a pattern bearing, I remove the bearing before soaking...

Simple Green is safe, effective, reasonably priced, non-toxic, and readily available.

Just my two cents...

-MarkMark Tripp38755.5442476852

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