Lol!I don't crochet! over 1 under 2 or is it ... oh never mind.
What are crochet files?
edit: is that what the files in my picture are called with the hooks?
Crochet files
they are taper files with radius edges. Pretty neat.
Lol!I don't crochet! over 1 under 2 or is it ... oh never mind.
What are crochet files?
edit: is that what the files in my picture are called with the hooks?
Those are file adjacent. Lol!These are almost files. I find they are great for sheet metal edges.
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One of my friends swears by flattening a copper pipe and dragging that through the teeth sideways.as far as cleanning a file, I have a good card file, but I also learned a trick that I love to use on certain files.
I take a nail, cut off the head, pound it on an anvil to make a flat end, then I run the flat end over the file so that the teeth cut into the flat part. It makes a comb for the file. Generally it will work with files of the same cut #.. (tpi). It cleans the fine files great, and doess not ruin the file. It will clean even the most stubborn pitted fill. Forgot to mention, I take a dowel and make a handle for the nail.
I've got perfectly good files as old as me. A few with rust like me too......lolI do not. Files are pretty hard so rust SHOULD come slow.
I did some practice chamfers today with various files and various cuts. It's fun to play around with.An ultrasonic cleaner is surprisingly good for cleaning files. Debris just floats out of the teeth.
And by the way, I am definitely in the class of a "deburring butcher." A clean file just makes the butchering happen faster.
An ultrasonic cleaner is surprisingly good for cleaning files. Debris just floats out of the teeth.
And by the way, I am definitely in the class of a "deburring butcher." A clean file just makes the butchering happen faster.