Lie Nelson Planes - Storage

Re: Lie Nelson Planes - Storage

Ted Owen, Pittsburgh

>LN sells Camelia oil for that purpose. Just the slightest spritz can be spread easily. It's effective at minimizing rust.

Yes, it's also important to keep them heated. If the temperature of a metal object dips below the dew point, the object becomes a visible moisture collector, which eventually results in rust. Your local dew point is available on TV weather or internet. Though being sheltered can change the dew point, if you keep the area containing your planes above that temperature, you're probably safe. Or you can dehumidify the area to lower the dew point.

Best, Ted

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Verne Mattson, Northeast NJ

>I've spritz my planes with WD-40 and wax the soles. So far, so good.

Three tips

Christopher Schwarz

>My best advice is to keep dust off your tools � dust attracts moisture and can contain salts that will speed up the conversion of iron to iron oxide.

Keep your tools in a sealed box � a toolbox is a good idea � that's in a heated room.

And lastly, regularly wipe down your tools with some kind of protective liquid, such as WD-40, wax, camilia oil or whatever. I avoid silicones myself, but I don't get too worked up about things that interfere with finishes. The first pass with a plane over wood will remove most coatings from the sole. I've used camilia oil for seven years, for example, and never had a rust problem or a finishing problem.

Chris

Re: Lie Nelson Planes - Storage

GolfSteve in Calgary

>I store my planes in an unheated garage that stays about +4 deg C during the winter. The planes are in a toolbox.

To control rust I do three things:

1. I keep the planes in a closed toolbox

2. I keep the planes clean & wipe down with camelia oil (it seems to work well; much better than 3M Topcoat)

3. I keep a block of camphor in the toolbox; I've read that machinests use this to keep rust off of their tools. It hasn't hurt anything and I don't get any rust. The toolbox smells nice also!

Re: Lie Nelson Planes - Storage

Steven Wilson

>My planes stay in a generally unheated garage in balmy Minnesota. As I do heat my shop when I'm working in it the tools go through the dew point quite often in the winter and will rust so I check them weekly and take the appropriate measures. To minimize rusting I do the following which works fairly well

1) keep the planes clean

2) lightly oil the planes with camella oil

3) keep the planes in plane socks (works very well)

4) keep them in a tool box (roll around Sears).

I've also started to run a small fan, blowing across the tool box when I'm heating my shop - it tends to keep the moisture down. Some of my future plans are

1) Build a wooden tool chest to store planes (metal tool chests are rust friendly)

2) Use camphore.

3) Obtain a roll of the paper LN uses to wrap their planes in (the rust preventative type)

4) Build a shop that is climate controlled (one of these years)

Re: Lie Nelson Planes - Storage

Kirk in HMB, CA

>LN Planes will rust. My 112 and 073 have both been hit, while in their original boxes in my garage, inside a cabinet. I probably didn't wipe them down thoroughly after the last use.

Since then, I've added a VCI emitter to my tool cabinet (similar to the paper LN wraps them in), and added camelia oil to my arsenal. I had been using Boeshield, but not religiously. I also wax, and keep a worklight burning outside the cabinet to keep the general area slightly warmer.

I'm about 1/3 mile from the ocean spray.

VCI emitters...

Dan Moening

>are available here:

http://www.bull-frog.ca/bull_frog_emitters.htm

Another thing I use is silica-gel (desicant) packs. Seems every toy the kids got for Xmas had at least one in it. Every draw, and enclosed space gets a couple.

Dan.

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Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA

>Kirk,

You really are taking a chance, keeping those tools that close to the surf. We're a good ten miles away from the surfline (at least until global warming has its way with the oceans), and I'd be happy to store your tools for you.

Bill

Re: Lie Nelson Planes - Storage

Alan Hamilton

>RJ,

I clean my tools with kerosene every time I use them. In addition to getting off dust, moisture and what-nots, kerosene leaves a very thin, oily film that has so far sufficed to keep my tools free from any sign of rust. If being a good cleaner and rust inhibitor is not enough, kerosene is dirt cheap!

Alan