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   QCInspector | Apr 18, 2006 02:23am | #1

   Coil the blade, spray it with oven cleaner, let it soak and rub it a bit with a paint or similar bristle brush and spray on more oven cleaner, then hose it off. Uncoil and wipe it dry. If it's not clean enough (boy your picky) repeat. If your not going to use it again right away then put some oil on a rag and wipe it on the blade to keep it from getting rusty.

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   ben047 | Apr 18, 2006 03:14am | #2

   QC--

   Thanks.  Ive heard of using oven cleaner but never tried it before.

    

   Ben

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   forestgirl | Apr 18, 2006 09:04am | #4

   "Ive heard of using oven cleaner but never tried it before." Yep, it's an fairly old technique, but not recommended for carbide tipped sawblades.  Good ol' Charles (sorry Charles) from Freud has posted an explanation.  So, best to reserve it for the bandsaw blades, IMHO.  I use Simple Green on tablesaw blades.forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   ben047 | Apr 19, 2006 01:12am | #5

   Much appreciate all the help.  I will be making a trip to the store soon.

    

   Ben

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   user-12759 | Apr 19, 2006 02:41am | #6

   409 household cleaner does a great job removing pitch from saw blades. Spray it on, let it soak for a few seconds and then wipe off. It works great on circular blades, so should work on band saw blades as well.

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   forestgirl | Apr 19, 2006 03:44am | #7

   Yep, 409 works too, same general idea as Simple Green.  I bought a pizza pan to soak the circ blades in, and clean them much more often than I did when I was using oven cleaner.  Looking at the MSDSs for the two, I'd much rather use Simple Green.  For anyone who's interested, here they are:

   Formula 409Simple Greenforestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-) 

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   Danceswithwoods | Apr 18, 2006 05:52am | #3

   I keep a 5 gallon bucket in the shop with about 2" of Krud Kutter in it.  I drop my tablesaw blades, coiled bandsaw blades, and router bits in it and leave them for about a half hour or so.  The resin and other crud (what's left of it) just rinses right off.  This stuff is great and you can get it at H.D. or Lowes.