Getting Oil off of a Barber Hone

[Tony Miller]

Anyone experimented with a good way to remove oil from a barber hone? I have a beautiful 3 line Swaty here that must have been used with oil. Water beads up and there is a slight amount of metal residue in the stone.

I've got a few others similar to this. Soaking in a solvent maybe?

Thanks,
Tony

[superfly]

I would try scrubbing with good dish detergent, and that would be all...

Maybe you don't want to mess with kerozine and stuff like that, it might melt the hone??

Or, you can simply continue using very light (mineral, sewing machine?) oil...


cheers,
Nenad

[vulcano]

dish soap and hot water......

[Zoidberg]

Maybe Acetone or Avio gasoline, or trieline.

Since those are ceramic hones, i dont think that organic solvents ruine them

cheers

[thebigspendur]

The problem is those hones are porous so it will have absorbed the oil and all the scrubbing in the world will not remove it. You need to soak it in some kind of solvent maybe a long time, like days and there is still no guarantee you'll get it all off. I think ideally a steam treatment might do it but you'd need a machine to do it.

[Razorburne]

I'm new to most of this, but I know there was a recent post (in the last month) where a similar topic was discussed...it seemed like there was a consensus that once oil is used, you have to stick with using oil b/c it's almost impossible to get out...probably b/c it is so porous.

Hopefully you can find a way to get what you want...sorry, no ideas from me!

[Howard]

Tony,
I restore a couple of stones every week and I use Easy Off Fume Free which you can get at Wal Mart or other store. It's designed to degrease baked on oven grease and float the swarf to the surface. It's in a blue can. The traditional Easy Off is in a yellow can and really stinks the house up.

[scarface]

well....there ya' go!

..Cool...that sounds like the best idea yet

(...self cleaning Swatys....h-m-m-m-m...think there's a market???...)

-whatever

-Lou

[Tony Miller]

Howard,
Thanks. I'll try that and maybe tackle the oven too while I'm at it !

Tony

[PuFFaH]

Never thought of just boiling it for a while in water? This I epect would heat the oil in the stone enough for it to come out then rise to the surface of the water. Regular descumbing of the surface water would keep the process clean. Just a thought.

Ivo, Joe was not the man that kept a razor sharp for a year by stropping alone, it was Honedright. I was in the running but I use pasted strops so I fell at the 4 furlong hurdle

PuFF