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   AlanTurner | Aug 06, 2003 01:14am | #1

   Might this have come from living in a pond?  If so, I don't see why you couldn't add a bit of bleach and saok them to kill the mold.  Just a thought.

   Alan

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   DennisS | Aug 06, 2003 04:42am | #3

   To All (Alans) -grin-

   You say a cup full of bleach ... I take people at their word, - like pouring a cup full out of the wife's Clorox bottle and putting in a waterstone sized bathtub for their bathing pleasure. That seems like a pretty severe treatment but - I'll call out the hazmat team to handle the bleach part of it and get them puppies de-flea'ed. It's *definitely* mold. Spent enough time fixing rotten (people) showers in the past to know that smell anywhere.

   Thanks.

   The odd part of it, my friend that sent these to me got out of woodworking some years ago and the stones have been sitting in a drawer all that time, also in their boxes. You can't smell a thing with the boxes closed, only when you hold them within say 6" to your nose is it all that evident. But then, I've never been known for my sense of smell, either.

   ...........

   Dennis in Bellevue WA

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   IMERC | Aug 06, 2003 07:18am | #4

   Dennis mke that a CAP full. You only need a few parts per million to kill moast any micro organism.

   Too much bleach reduces the surface tension of the stones. Bleach in excess will radically shorten the life and ruin the stones.

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   DennisS | Aug 06, 2003 07:43am | #6

   Cap full ..... CAP full, Dennis. When in doubt read the instructions!!

   Thanks for the heads up. The stones are up north in the new shop right now but I'll get 'em soakin' just as soon's I'm able.

   Sarge - One reason I put the heating tubing in the floor slab was so I could sit on the floor to work. With the Dozuki(sp) saw. And yes, I do know how to use chopsticks but raw fish is out of the question.

   ...........

   Dennis in Bellevue WA

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   RANGERP75R | Aug 06, 2003 08:30am | #7

   DENNIS

      Yeah, I agree the raw fish s*cks.. I'm pretty good with the chops also. I just bought that Work-Bench book. Toshio (sp) Odate, who I saw in seminar long ago is in their using his floor work-benches and planing board. Take a look at it if you have the chance.

      From the looks of Odate's shop, we're over-equipped. Oh well, the good news is ours doesn't have that raw-fish smell. ha..ha..

   Too bed before this gets really silly... < G >

   sarge..jt

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   RANGERP75R | Aug 06, 2003 07:21am | #5

   Dennis

      Keep them in a tupper-ware pond as the "Alan clan" has suggested. Don't put them anywhere they will freeze this winter. Not that I know that from experience. he..he..

      Have fun an don't forget to take off your shoes when you enter the shop. Next thing you know someone will give you one of those pull saws an you'll be eating sushi on saw-dust breaks.  < G >

   Regards...

   sarge..jt

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   Alan | Aug 06, 2003 01:30am | #2

   Dennis,

   The other Alan (who spells his name correctly) aka s4s, has it right:  you're undoubtedly growing something in there; and bleach is the best way to both get rid of your current crop and to keep it from returning.

   I keep my water stones in a tupper-ware like container that's big enough to hold four of my stones.  Whenever I think about it I put in a cap full of bleach.  Since I began doing this I've had no problems.

   Alan (the other Alan, aka not s4s)