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Title: Cleaning Files
Post by: Hobie21 on April 10, 2007, 05:19:30 pm
Hi Guys,
How does one clean white metal from files? I have tried a Draper wire brush but to no avail. 
Title: Re: Cleaning Files
Post by: a3nige on April 10, 2007, 05:27:22 pm
Flie a bit of steel till the white metal has gone.

Nige
Title: Re: Cleaning Files
Post by: Hobie21 on April 10, 2007, 05:47:52 pm
Thanks Nige, I have just tried filing metal and it works.
Ken
Title: Re: Cleaning Files
Post by: Roger in France on April 15, 2007, 11:07:49 am
I think the technical term for clogging a file is "pinning"? A wire brush with 2 or 3 cm. long "bristles" is useless for de-pinning, you need a very short (about 0.25cm.) "bristled" wire brush which is usually sold as a cloth backed roll which you stick or nail to a suitable length of wood.

Roger in France.
Title: Re: Cleaning Files
Post by: HS93 (RIP) on April 15, 2007, 11:16:41 am
I think it called a File card for cleaning. 
Peter
Title: Re: Cleaning Files
Post by: MCAT on April 16, 2007, 04:25:36 pm
just another tip  i warm the file with a mini blow torch and brush while still hot with a wire brush