Found my knife........

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Lost my knife that i keep in my storage shed a few weeks back..........and I found it. I apparently left it in the chlorine tablet conatainer. Amazing what chlorine does to steel.
 
I imagine you will be needing a new knife?
 
Wow. That may be just a tad past the point of “patina’d” everyone seems to get excited about. Chlorine must be a helluva oxidizer!
 
Yes.... chlorine corrodes steel, but when it's in concentrated form..... whoa. There was no gap between the blade and liner, just corrosion.
 
I'd drop it in some vinegar and salt mixture and see if that rust scale would drop off.

You would be surprised what will get eaten away.

Then brush, rinse, oil and resharpen.
 
Now, how in the heck does one "leave it" in the chlorine bucket? Here let me just open this container and SQUIRREL....
 
Infamous1 said:
Now, how in the heck does one "leave it" in the chlorine bucket? Here let me just open this container and SQUIRREL....
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Man......sometimes i have too good uvva time. Im pretty sure this is a scenario in which this happened........ Upon an afternoon/evening of drinking beer, iheart radio blasting, playin with the dogs and splish splashingn in the pool.....i probably used the knife to open a chlorine tablet for the pool and just laid it down in the bucket not thinking about it. And of between the beer and my CRS, i had no idea where it was the next time i needed it. Of course there some open packages of chlorine tabs in there (i toss the opened packages back in the bucket and toss it when the tablets run out) which leaves plenty of concentrated chlorine dust-small broken pieces, etc. I dound it this morning near the bottom of the bucket while getting a new chlorine tablet.......i came full circle.
 
I'd put it in about 8oz of white vinegar with a couple tablespoons of salt diluted in it. Don't leave it there like you did in the chlorine or it will just finish the job :).

But that salt and vinegar mix will strip that rust off and leave a blackened patina in its wake. Do not get it on your skin. It burns a bit.
 
I've cleaned up a number of rusted an neglected tools this way.
 
BowWow said:
Man......sometimes i have too good uvva time. Im pretty sure this is a scenario in which this happened........ Upon an afternoon/evening of drinking beer....
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Been there, luckily I didn't have a bucket of chlorine to lose something in. :p
 
I left a chlorine tablet out on a steel surface in the pool house one time. Even the little bit of damp activated it enough to eat more or less right through it in the couple of weeks I didn't notice it.
 
Well......24 hours didn't gitrdone. However.......i now have a gap between the liner and blade most of the way down. I will revisit in 24 hours ir so.
 
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