Thread: Removing oil from a Thuringian

I have used oven cleaner on few of mine Thuris with a good results. However if the stone is soaked then either cat litter pellets followed with dishwasher cycle. Or stuff it in dry fine sand or dust to suck out the oil in warm ish place.

That's good to know, that oven cleaner is OK on them. I retract my earlier warning. But use it with good ventilation! And rubber gloves.

Normaly I do it outside. Then I take it home into hot water and stiff brush with swarfega.

Swarfega, now THAT sounds like something serious.

I started patching a kayak in a basement once, got the fiberglass cut and ready to go, then mixed up the epoxy and rushed to move the whole project up and outside while I still had enough brain cells to care. It was touch and go there for a few breaths!

Do not get all toxic with your stones folks,heres the final word on how to clean and make them as new.
Put them all on the top rack of your dishwasher,set the thing at normal wash cycle.
Dump in two cups of simple green (non-toxic,bio-degradable,you can brush your teeth with it)
Run the load,stop it on the dry cycle if you want,I never have,no probs, no issues, enough said.

Don't put your stones in the dishwasher, the water heats up slowly until very hot, then it flushes the hot water away and replaces it with cold water for a rinsing cycle and here's is where you might run into trouble as the stone may or may not develop cracks. I've had to many things split to pieces in there to trust my expensive stones in there.
If dish soap doesn't get rid of the oil you can always use naphta to get it out.

Set fire to them! Or not... Prob only a good idea in my head. Off/on topic - has anyone ever used the Lansky honing oil that comes with their knife honing sets on one of your razor stones?

I cook stones submerged in water in deep pan to about 90 degrees Celsius. It is better to add a dishwasher tablet. Then be heated as long as oil leaking from the stone to the surface. I collect oil from the surface. I use paper or cloth. Sometimes it takes 3 hours, and sometimes 5. At the end stones are completely without oil (they are not water-repellent).

If dishwasher tablet is not enough I add Namo. It is Czech product for better soaking clothes. Namo contains <5% Anionic surfactant, soap, carboxymetlyl cellulose and >30% carbonates.

The best stuff to use is The Super Clean Dergeasers.
auto parts stores sell it.
When using it wear gloves rub with a brush of some kind
and never get the stuff on your skin it will burn bad.
I personally use it on all dirty greasey stones i
bag off that ebay to see what i gots.
Best buy of my life what i perty sure is a unmarked
dark blue thurianing 7by2by1.
for only 8 bucks. what a steal.
It's why i am addictive to buying stones there.
any thing else i normally pass on if it's free on the price.

Originally Posted by atercz

I cook stones submerged in water in deep pan to about 90 degrees Celsius. It is better to add a dishwasher tablet. Then be heated as long as oil leaking from the stone to the surface. I collect oil from the surface. I use paper or cloth. Sometimes it takes 3 hours, and sometimes 5. At the end stones are completely without oil (they are not water-repellent).

If dishwasher tablet is not enough I add Namo. It is Czech product for better soaking clothes. Namo contains <5% Anionic surfactant, soap, carboxymetlyl cellulose and >30% carbonates.

I do the same thing only I use some dish soap and some TSP and boil for at least 45mins