I feel sick.

I have a bin for blades that have been taken out of the scales for re-scale.
The bin is segmented into sections for different stages of buffing.

Well... Unbeknownst to me, a little over a week ago my four year old daughter poured her soda in the bin. (I haven't been able to establish why)

All of the blades were coated in red rust - all 92 of them. I used a product to convert the red rust to black, and gave them all a once over with some fine steel wool to knock the gunk off.

The good news is that the rusting is all stopped.

The bad news is that every blade is covered in devil's spit and pitted deeply enough to not buff out easily. Everything etched is going to lose the etching. Some of the full hollows are going to have to keep some pitting. Blades that were finished to polishing stage are going to need to go back to the low grits.

I don't think any of them are totally destroyed, but there are a lot that will never be the same again.

Ouch!
That is truly bad news!
You have my sympathies!

Good luck in rescuing as much as possible.

ouch! the thrills of fatherhood!

Oh man, that's a rough story.

I hope you are a calm fellow in most cases.

I'm still trying to pick my jaw off the floor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Love your kids? Prove it by beating them.

Harsh lesson learned. Always put your razors away when your childern are within a 100miles of them.

At least there is an up side. She didn't harm herself :)

I truly hope that there were no strops in arms reach of both you and your Child....|!!!

It is so hard when they are younger and make innocent honest mistakes like that. You want to explode but you know in your heart your wife will beat you if you do

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Originally Posted by HNSB

I have a bin for blades that have been taken out of the scales for re-scale.
The bin is segmented into sections for different stages of buffing.

Well... Unbeknownst to me, a little over a week ago my four year old daughter poured her soda in the bin. (I haven't been able to establish why)

All of the blades were coated in red rust - all 92 of them. I used a product to convert the red rust to black, and gave them all a once over with some fine steel wool to knock the gunk off.

The good news is that the rusting is all stopped.

The bad news is that every blade is covered in devil's spit and pitted deeply enough to not buff out easily. Everything etched is going to lose the etching. Some of the full hollows are going to have to keep some pitting. Blades that were finished to polishing stage are going to need to go back to the low grits.

I don't think any of them are totally destroyed, but there are a lot that will never be the same again.

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HNSB,
I did a little search and I found this which I hope will be of help to you. Home Remedies to Remove Rust | eHow.com
Good luck,
Patrick

:dropjaw:OMG:cry:

i know a certain little lady thats getting coal in her stocking this christmas.....:cry:

Well, at least..........actually, I can't think of an "at least"......

My sympathies. Hug your daughter and move on. Chalk it up to the Dad Life. :)"Dad Life".

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Well, at least..........actually, I can't think of an "at least"......

My sympathies. Hug your daughter and move on. Chalk it up to the Dad Life. :)"Dad Life".

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Yep. Keep a couple of razors with rust on them and give them to her the day her first child is born as a reminder to keep her temper in check and what is really important in front of her.

As a parent and grandparent you have all my sympathy, been there and done that in oh so many ways. The hardest part is knowing that whatever she did, she did in a spirit of childlike love, joy and innocence. To put it in its proper perspective, now may be a good time to talk to your father, he may have a story of his own to tell.

That is why some animals eat their young in the wild....

as a grandparent i have a lot more forgivness for things like this than i did as a parent, i dont know if it is a geting older thing or what, but in the end all you can do is love them.

Wow, that is a bummer. Well the silver lining around the dark cloud is that you are going to be a far more experienced restorer than you would have been had you noticed the spill earlier.

Ugh, ugh, ugh. Thank goodness my daughter is 42 and out of the house, my mother is afraid of razors and I am single with no one to mess with my stuff for any reason.


Now is the time for sandpaper/double sided tape on a 2" diameter felt wheel with 1/4 arbor into a long Harbor Freight Dremel type extension secured in a 3 jaw chuck on a 1750 rpm motor.

Tough break,

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Originally Posted by HNSB

I have a bin for blades that have been taken out of the scales for re-scale.
The bin is segmented into sections for different stages of buffing.

Well... Unbeknownst to me, a little over a week ago my four year old daughter poured her soda in the bin. (I haven't been able to establish why)

All of the blades were coated in red rust - all 92 of them. I used a product to convert the red rust to black, and gave them all a once over with some fine steel wool to knock the gunk off.

The good news is that the rusting is all stopped.

The bad news is that every blade is covered in devil's spit and pitted deeply enough to not buff out easily. Everything etched is going to lose the etching. Some of the full hollows are going to have to keep some pitting. Blades that were finished to polishing stage are going to need to go back to the low grits.

I don't think any of them are totally destroyed, but there are a lot that will never be the same again.

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man i feel for you and understand the pain. Last year we had a new puppy and she peed upstairs. 24 hours later i found it had leaked through the floor directly onto my workbench where i had half a dozen newly ground razors...... You thought soda was corrosive....... Shake it off and keep on man. :)

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Well... Unbeknownst to me, a little over a week ago my four year old daughter poured her soda in the bin. (I haven't been able to establish why)

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I dont know why my 4 year old son does half the destructive stuff he does. I guess its just fun:). Thats such a huge tragedy though, hope you get over it soon.

dealing with some red rust myself.. and i dont know if i can buff it out without loosing the etching/engraving.. i'd settle for black rust i guess.. how do you turn red rust to black rust?

I feel for you. My daughter just painted one of the bedroom walls in black and yellow with her markers. Ten minutes ago. Looks like an ancient cave wall now :)
Good luck with the blades! You'll sort it all out.

One of my daughters colored the grouting between the floor tiles with crayon. :)

I agree it sucks to have 92 razors damaged like this. The silver lining is of course that she did not get hurt despite interacting with a box of 92 very sharp object.

Build yourself a new, taller, wider workbench. No stools, blade bin back and centre. Make sure it is a 'Manly' stand up workspace. Problem solved...in future.


Mick

Sorry to hear of your recent experience
Reading this thread brought this to mind...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwwtO5viUDE

Hoping things turn out well in your re-restorations
Hugs to the small person :angel:

Ah mate, I feel for you..! :(

All I have to contend with are my cats drinking my honing water... I'm going to stop moaning about that.

Hope you can salvage them.

I know that someone already did a thread on molasses, but I have recently had some good results from a 10 parts water/1 part molasses. 48hrs is all it took.

Might be of help.

Good luck.

Stu

I remember over the years that my kids were the ones to sand out the brand new paint job on my '66 mustang with road blacktop chunks, be scouts and light fires in the woods nearby, paint a wall with a spray can, magic marker walls, hide food in their rooms which got a colony of ants covering the floor, lock the stalls from the inside in the necessary room at my workplace while I was working a long weekend and child sitting.
Mostly the trouble they got into was from watching an adult do something and then trying to match it with the objects at hand.:hmmm:

Now you know why they say soda is bad for kids.

wow. Got any pictures of the damage? and no, I'm not talking about any bruises your daughter might have.

I CAN'T EVEN IMAGINE!! Sorry doesn't cut it here, I have a couple of grand/kids and thank goodness their old enough to head my lectures on what's touchable and what's off limits, thought I know some time in the future my luck will run out, I"m waiting for the axe to fall, so far, my blades and honeing equipment is safe.

BTW, give her a hug from all of us, really.

tinkersd or SRP[With Sympathy]

zip lock bags....

I can remember something from my childhood, I was 3 and this was 61 years ago. My dad came home from work and I was in the back yard playing and for some reason I decided that I needed to clamber up on the hood of the family car he had just parked in the driveway. I saw dad run out of the house toward me; he then grabbed me off the car and gave me a spanking on the spot and told me in no uncertain language that I was never to climb on his car. Since the spanking was more for getting my attention than to hurt me and I wasn't wailing in pain, I can distinctly remember thinking that had he only told me about this not-to-do before I did it, I would have never climbed on the darned car.

So, if you can only anticipate what mischief your kids can get into and before they succumb to acting out the normal antics of childhood, tell them about the things they shouldn't do. No small job, that.

May be time to star shopping for tiny version of leather apron, kevlar gloves, safety goggles and a respirator. It'll teach her both a valuable lesson on why pouring soda over the blades was bad decision (presumably time with the buffers is less fun than time with the dolls and the little red pony), and she can generate some economic value to offset or may be even make up for the economic loss she caused :)

You said 4 years old, right? I think it's just about the right time. Though you may want to keep it on the hush side given the overreaching government... :)

Oh man that sucks, but its karma. You bust up your parents stuff and your kids bust up your stuff and the cycle continues.
I drove my fathers car into the house at the age of 7. So I know i have a dozy coming.

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May be time to star shopping for tiny version of leather apron, kevlar gloves, safety goggles and a respirator. It'll teach her both a valuable lesson on why pouring soda over the blades was bad decision (presumably time with the buffers is less fun than time with the dolls and the little red pony), and she can generate some economic value to offset or may be even make up for the economic loss she caused :)

You said 4 years old, right? I think it's just about the right time. Though you may want to keep it on the hush side given the overreaching government... :)

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Mick

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I can distinctly remember thinking that had he only told me about this not-to-do before I did it, I would have never climbed on the darned car.

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That's the thing.
What seems non-obvious to us seems perfectly normal to a kid. In my case, I told my kids not to color on the wall or furniture. I never mentioned the grouting between the floor tiles because it's something I would not even think of. I can hardly spank them for doing something they did not know was wrong. At age 2, you cannot really expect kids to have well thought out actions :)

My daughters have always seen me with sharp objects. I told them to never ever touch them without my say so. And then I taught them how to pick up a razor safely and give it to me, should they ever find one unsupervised. And finally, I told them they would get a big reward if they ever brought me a razor or knife if they found one and gave it to me safely.

These days my kids (4 and 6) enjoy nothing more than to be in the basement with me. they have their own crafts / hammering table in between my tools, where they can use their real hammers with real nails and real pliers. It's not that they cannot safely work with tools and stuff. It's just a matter of being very explicit in what is or is not allowed.

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Mostly the trouble they got into was from watching an adult do something and then trying to match it with the objects at hand.:hmmm:

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I grew up with two fathers at various time periods. One was a carpenter and, as a very young kid, more than once, I took one of his Lufkin 6' folding rulers and broke it trying to open it. The other , my 'real' father was a pipe smoker and I vaguely remember breaking the stem off of one of his pipes. I had seen him remove the stem to clean it and thought I would do him a favor. :angel:

OMG...Just OMG...I don't even know what to say...Damn!