The Importance of Cleaning Router Bits: A Comprehensive Guide

Cleaning router bits is an essential step in maintaining their performance and extending their lifespan. Router bits are prone to accumulating debris, dust, and grime during use, which can affect their cutting ability and overall quality. In this article, we will discuss the importance of cleaning router bits and provide a step-by-step guide on how to clean them effectively.

Using a Brush to Clean Outer Bits

When it comes to cleaning outer bits, a brush is an essential tool. The outer bits are more challenging to clean because they are smaller and harder to access. To clean these areas, we use a brush to gently scrub away any debris or grime that may be accumulated. This process requires some patience and elbow grease, as the brushes can be stiff and require some effort to work effectively.

Noticing the Difference with Cleaning

After cleaning the router bits using a brush, it becomes apparent how effective this method can be. The outer bits, which were previously difficult to clean, now appear shiny and free of debris. This is because the brush has been able to dislodge any accumulated grime or dust that may have been present on the surface of the bit.

The Limitations of Brush Cleaning

While brushing is an effective method for cleaning router bits, it does have its limitations. The outer bits can be quite small and difficult to reach, making it challenging to clean them thoroughly using a brush alone. In some cases, the brush may not be able to dislodge all of the debris or grime, leaving behind stubborn stains.

Using Hot Water and Baking Soda for Cleaning

For more stubborn areas of the router bits, we can use a hot water and baking soda solution. This method is effective in removing any remaining debris or grime that may have been missed by the brush cleaning process. To use this method, simply soak the area in question in warm water mixed with baking soda. The baking soda acts as a gentle abrasive, helping to remove any tough stains or debris.

The Effectiveness of Spray Nine

For areas that are particularly stubborn, we can use spray nine to clean the router bits. This is an effective method for removing heat marks and other imperfections on the surface of the bit. To use this method, simply apply the spray nine to the area in question and let it sit for a few minutes before wiping away with a cloth. The result is a clean and streak-free surface.

Comparing Cleaning Methods

When comparing different cleaning methods, it becomes apparent that the effectiveness of each depends on the type of debris or grime present. Brush cleaning is effective for removing smaller debris or dust from outer bits, while hot water and baking soda solution are better suited for more stubborn areas. Spray nine, on the other hand, is excellent for removing heat marks and imperfections from the surface of the bit.

Conclusion

Cleaning router bits is an essential step in maintaining their performance and extending their lifespan. By using a combination of cleaning methods, including brushing, hot water and baking soda solution, and spray nine, we can effectively remove debris and grime from our router bits. Remember to always check your notifications at the bottom of this video description for links to subscribe, like, and comment below.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi i'm shannon from houseimprovements.com in this video i'm going to tell you a little secret that all the blade manufacturers don't want you to know and that is when your blade starts seeming like it's getting dull or getting really dirty and gummed up on the sides you don't need to throw it away and go get a new one you heck you don't even have to take it and get it sharpened right away a little bit of cleaning on your blades when they start getting gummed up on the side and you'll be able to get a lot more usage out of every blade so uh an example this this isn't only just for saw blades but even for router bits those sorts of things you can see this one here this router bit how dirty it's getting by cleaning that off it's almost going to seem like a new blade again here's a saw blade here you can see the pitch and stuff on each on the side of each teeth and that can cause some binding and even some smoking and that sort of thing when you're pushing it through the saw which sometimes leads you to believe that maybe your blade is too dull it needs to be replaced or sent away to be sharpened well i've been cleaning my own blades for quite a while and i've i started out with chemical cleaners and those sorts of things designed for cleaning blades and what i've found is i've started using just plain old simple spray nine even the rv type spray nine is even better but uh some spray nine soak the blade on in that for a little while and then you can use a brass or a plastic bristle brush and scrub those blades they clean right up and they almost seem like new again when you put them back in the saw and use them so you can get quite a few more uses out of the blades before you send them away to get sharpened and that yes that is a thing you can have your blades sharpened in most areas you'll find somebody that'll do it and uh you know if you've got a blade that you spend over 100 or 150 on you want to get as much use out of that as you can as long as you've got decent carbides and the carbides aren't damaged you should be able to have it sharp pretty easily even sometimes i have a blade where the carbide gets damaged and they'll just braise a new one on new tooth on there and sharpen it up with the rest of them okay so i'm going to show you uh what i normally do with one of these blades here so i i just have a pan that i use all the time just big enough to to put the blade in throw your blade right in there and just dose it in spray nine so get lots in there because you want you want enough in there that the blades you know sitting in there soaking even on the bottom side that these are kind of teeth are being covered with the solution so i've got a good generous amount in there and i'm just going to let that blade soak for about 20 minutes or so i'll just put a little bit more on it when it needs it i used to even just keep a container with some spray nine in it and i just kept reusing it all the time but last time i used it i guess i got rid of it so it's time to kind of start over so just let that soak i can already see you can already see that the spray nine down there in the bottom is turning color if you get away from the foam there you can see that it's turning dark and that's it's just already getting some of the tarnish and sap and and everything off the side of that blade so like i said you want to just set that to the side let it soak for 15 20 minutes half an hour or whatever and we'll come back to it now something else that uh i've heard lots about is kind of a non-chemical way to do this so i'm gonna try that in this video as well i think it's probably gonna take a little longer to soak but uh doesn't matter we'll uh give it a try and see what it does so i've got this other blade neither one of these blades were real bad yet but uh i was wanting to clean that one over there and i found this other one hanging on the wall and it's a little bit dirty so we're gonna do it too so i'm just using the lid off a five gallon pail it's just about the right size nice size for a 10 inch blade so lay the blade in there and uh so the other thing i've been hearing a lot about is just boiling hot water so we're just gonna basically get the blade submerged in hot water like so and then go into the kitchen and just grab some plain old baking soda or sorry baking yeah baking soda and you want to sprinkle it sprinkle it around on the teeth again i've never done this so we'll see if it works or not and just let it sit you can see it it's actually uh bubbling up here already yeah that water's definitely hot so we'll just uh let that sit and i'm probably going to let this one sit for a little longer than i will the other let's let's see when i come back to this one how long i've let it sit and how well it does so we'll set that to the side get it gear out of the way and uh we'll come back and see how both these blades made up okay so i'm back so this blade actually sat for about 15 minutes i knew it wouldn't take as much because uh it wasn't real bad and uh actually some of the teeth are just clean just sitting here like this so yeah i just take that brush see if i can get it up here where you guys can see a little better i just take the brush and just go around i kind of i usually kind of go in the direction that the teeth are instead of against the teeth i can't really hurt it with a plastic brush or a brass brush and i just give it a little bit of a scrub sometimes you'll get some uh discoloration on the body of the blade as well so it's a good time to kind of clean that up and just get everything looking nice and clean and less friction the better so that's cleaned up really good just flip it over here and i mean this side's almost clean without even scrubbing on it so you can kind of see there it's really not too bad i'll give it a little scrub and it'll just shine right up and get that last little bit on there that's uh that is kind of baked on a little bit more like i said this is about 10 minutes or so i only have it sitting i even had some spray paint on that blade and it's even coming off okay so this was the spray nine and it uh you know it's it's definitely less expensive by the way spray nine's not sponsoring us on this they didn't send us that bottle nothing like that you know me uh just showing you the tricks that i use so um yeah this is probably a tenth of the cost of the actual blade cleaner stuff you can buy and it really does the same job and it isn't as harsh i mean i'm not even using rubber gloves like i said the uh the boat an rv spray nine works even better on a really dirty blade because it's a little more of a gel it just hangs on there and uh and it easily uh eats away anything that's left so i think i'm gonna wipe that off and just see what we've got so i just take a a rag and clean it up now just be careful because the blade's sharp so you don't want to get too carried away end up cutting your fingers yeah that's looking pretty good already a little more soaking it would have uh would have got right into the corners and even if i scrubbed a little more it would have got every little bit off but it actually even in that short amount of time did a really good job of cleaning it up see so you can see here teeth are all nice and shiny and clean again they don't have that film that builds up right on the side of the carbide tooth there and uh even when you look at the look of the face of the tooth there's nothing on there either okay so that was the spray nine i knew that was gonna work because that's the method that i use uh now one one other thing i do i find that uh even the other cleaners they used to once you did it it leaves a little bit of a film on there so then uh i found this product again not sponsored by them or anything uh it's just a blade coat it's kind of a blade lubricant and i just give the blades a little bit of a spray after i've dried them real good with this and let them sit for a few minutes before i use them and uh really helps with the friction and and that because like i said sometimes you get a little bit of a film on there from that and i suppose if you rinsed it with water and wiped it down again you might get rid of that anyways but i like this product it works pretty good so i just spray the whole body and the teeth and everything on both sides give it a good liberal coating of this and the thing i like about this i'll just set it to the side let it dry the thing i like about this product is uh it doesn't have any silicone or anything like that in it for those of you who do a bit of woodworking you'll know that you don't want a silicone product on any kind of blades you're using because it'll sometimes leave marks on the wood and it won't take stains and finishes afterwards because of the silicone so so this doesn't do that so let's see what this water and baking soda did here so again so this is probably soaked for about i don't know 15 minutes or so and i kind of stood this this uh router bit down in there and you can you could see before how dirty it was and i'll just give it a little scrub here with this brush see what we got the outer bits are a little tougher to deal with just because they're hard to hang on to because they're that much smaller it's actually coming off taking a little more scrubbing on here but this router bit was bad just having a close look at it actually looks pretty good compared to how it was rub that bit with my fingernail dry it off here and i'll show you so you can see router bit came quite clean compared to how it was and uh it'll cut a lot better with it when it doesn't have all that build up of uh grime and everything on it from cutting just they build up heat more when they're all dirty like that so the blades looking pretty good uh let me just uh maybe bring the camera down here so you can have a look okay so the the blade here you can see oh you can see it gets shinier just as i rub it with my finger it's taking that little much work to to clean it off i think the other side was a little dirtier i'll just flip it over here see if i can get it so you can see this side's a little a little more dirty even after it's soaked but let's just see and one thing i'm noticing the water it's a little dirty but it's not as dirty as that spray nine was after sitting and this blade was probably not as dirty as the other one let's just see what happens when i give this a little scrub i'll only scrub this one spot and then we'll we can compare it side by side with the area i didn't scrub so it's not looking too bad let me just see if that this is just some brazen color on there no there's still a little bit of goop on there so i'd say this isn't working quite as good but i didn't really let it sit that long either so uh let me just dry that off so you can see better so you can see here this is where i scrubbed with the brush and as we come around here where i didn't scrub you can tell it's getting a little a little dirtier you can see a little bit more dirt up here on the side so i'd say it it works but it's definitely going to take a little longer a little longer to soak in there and get that off but it some came off right off the start with it just sitting there oops but i think i think that system if a person let that sit for at least half an hour it would be pretty good okay so uh we had that area that i i scrubbed off um that was soaked in the water in the baking soda solution now i'm just gonna scrub i put some spray nine over here let it sit for about five minutes kind of beside that area and i just wanted to scrub that and see if you could really see a noticeable difference and i i can tell already it's it's definitely pulling more stuff off so the spray nine is a little a little quicker maybe a little better uh well they look pretty similar now that i've got it side by side other than here's where i scrubbed with the water or scrubbed with the water soak in this area basically in there and this is where i did the spray nine you can see that in the spray nine area it took this heat mark off a little more there easier than it did over here so i don't know if i'm sold on the hot water and baking soda set up yet but uh i think um i'll kind of stick with the spray nine because i know that works maybe if it soaked a little longer with hot water and baking soda it might work a little better but i guess we'll see another time maybe i'll try it a little longer so anyways i just wanted to show you that and uh i think it's time to wrap things up kind of made a short video into a really long one like usual sorry about that uh just a couple last things as usual i want you to click on your notifications at the bottom there what what do you mean you haven't subscribed yet well get on it subscribe click the subscribe button right there that one that one click it click it there you go now you can set your notifications turn them on so you can be notified anytime that we post something new and uh as usual we'll have some links in the description of the video that's down below down below where you hit the subscribe you'll see description yeah right in there that's where we're gonna have the links we'll have links there for facebook patreon all that kind of stuff maybe i'll throw a link in there for this uh for this uh blade coat blade bit lubricant again not sponsored but i like the stuff okay now head out to the shop and get those blades cleanhi i'm shannon from houseimprovements.com in this video i'm going to tell you a little secret that all the blade manufacturers don't want you to know and that is when your blade starts seeming like it's getting dull or getting really dirty and gummed up on the sides you don't need to throw it away and go get a new one you heck you don't even have to take it and get it sharpened right away a little bit of cleaning on your blades when they start getting gummed up on the side and you'll be able to get a lot more usage out of every blade so uh an example this this isn't only just for saw blades but even for router bits those sorts of things you can see this one here this router bit how dirty it's getting by cleaning that off it's almost going to seem like a new blade again here's a saw blade here you can see the pitch and stuff on each on the side of each teeth and that can cause some binding and even some smoking and that sort of thing when you're pushing it through the saw which sometimes leads you to believe that maybe your blade is too dull it needs to be replaced or sent away to be sharpened well i've been cleaning my own blades for quite a while and i've i started out with chemical cleaners and those sorts of things designed for cleaning blades and what i've found is i've started using just plain old simple spray nine even the rv type spray nine is even better but uh some spray nine soak the blade on in that for a little while and then you can use a brass or a plastic bristle brush and scrub those blades they clean right up and they almost seem like new again when you put them back in the saw and use them so you can get quite a few more uses out of the blades before you send them away to get sharpened and that yes that is a thing you can have your blades sharpened in most areas you'll find somebody that'll do it and uh you know if you've got a blade that you spend over 100 or 150 on you want to get as much use out of that as you can as long as you've got decent carbides and the carbides aren't damaged you should be able to have it sharp pretty easily even sometimes i have a blade where the carbide gets damaged and they'll just braise a new one on new tooth on there and sharpen it up with the rest of them okay so i'm going to show you uh what i normally do with one of these blades here so i i just have a pan that i use all the time just big enough to to put the blade in throw your blade right in there and just dose it in spray nine so get lots in there because you want you want enough in there that the blades you know sitting in there soaking even on the bottom side that these are kind of teeth are being covered with the solution so i've got a good generous amount in there and i'm just going to let that blade soak for about 20 minutes or so i'll just put a little bit more on it when it needs it i used to even just keep a container with some spray nine in it and i just kept reusing it all the time but last time i used it i guess i got rid of it so it's time to kind of start over so just let that soak i can already see you can already see that the spray nine down there in the bottom is turning color if you get away from the foam there you can see that it's turning dark and that's it's just already getting some of the tarnish and sap and and everything off the side of that blade so like i said you want to just set that to the side let it soak for 15 20 minutes half an hour or whatever and we'll come back to it now something else that uh i've heard lots about is kind of a non-chemical way to do this so i'm gonna try that in this video as well i think it's probably gonna take a little longer to soak but uh doesn't matter we'll uh give it a try and see what it does so i've got this other blade neither one of these blades were real bad yet but uh i was wanting to clean that one over there and i found this other one hanging on the wall and it's a little bit dirty so we're gonna do it too so i'm just using the lid off a five gallon pail it's just about the right size nice size for a 10 inch blade so lay the blade in there and uh so the other thing i've been hearing a lot about is just boiling hot water so we're just gonna basically get the blade submerged in hot water like so and then go into the kitchen and just grab some plain old baking soda or sorry baking yeah baking soda and you want to sprinkle it sprinkle it around on the teeth again i've never done this so we'll see if it works or not and just let it sit you can see it it's actually uh bubbling up here already yeah that water's definitely hot so we'll just uh let that sit and i'm probably going to let this one sit for a little longer than i will the other let's let's see when i come back to this one how long i've let it sit and how well it does so we'll set that to the side get it gear out of the way and uh we'll come back and see how both these blades made up okay so i'm back so this blade actually sat for about 15 minutes i knew it wouldn't take as much because uh it wasn't real bad and uh actually some of the teeth are just clean just sitting here like this so yeah i just take that brush see if i can get it up here where you guys can see a little better i just take the brush and just go around i kind of i usually kind of go in the direction that the teeth are instead of against the teeth i can't really hurt it with a plastic brush or a brass brush and i just give it a little bit of a scrub sometimes you'll get some uh discoloration on the body of the blade as well so it's a good time to kind of clean that up and just get everything looking nice and clean and less friction the better so that's cleaned up really good just flip it over here and i mean this side's almost clean without even scrubbing on it so you can kind of see there it's really not too bad i'll give it a little scrub and it'll just shine right up and get that last little bit on there that's uh that is kind of baked on a little bit more like i said this is about 10 minutes or so i only have it sitting i even had some spray paint on that blade and it's even coming off okay so this was the spray nine and it uh you know it's it's definitely less expensive by the way spray nine's not sponsoring us on this they didn't send us that bottle nothing like that you know me uh just showing you the tricks that i use so um yeah this is probably a tenth of the cost of the actual blade cleaner stuff you can buy and it really does the same job and it isn't as harsh i mean i'm not even using rubber gloves like i said the uh the boat an rv spray nine works even better on a really dirty blade because it's a little more of a gel it just hangs on there and uh and it easily uh eats away anything that's left so i think i'm gonna wipe that off and just see what we've got so i just take a a rag and clean it up now just be careful because the blade's sharp so you don't want to get too carried away end up cutting your fingers yeah that's looking pretty good already a little more soaking it would have uh would have got right into the corners and even if i scrubbed a little more it would have got every little bit off but it actually even in that short amount of time did a really good job of cleaning it up see so you can see here teeth are all nice and shiny and clean again they don't have that film that builds up right on the side of the carbide tooth there and uh even when you look at the look of the face of the tooth there's nothing on there either okay so that was the spray nine i knew that was gonna work because that's the method that i use uh now one one other thing i do i find that uh even the other cleaners they used to once you did it it leaves a little bit of a film on there so then uh i found this product again not sponsored by them or anything uh it's just a blade coat it's kind of a blade lubricant and i just give the blades a little bit of a spray after i've dried them real good with this and let them sit for a few minutes before i use them and uh really helps with the friction and and that because like i said sometimes you get a little bit of a film on there from that and i suppose if you rinsed it with water and wiped it down again you might get rid of that anyways but i like this product it works pretty good so i just spray the whole body and the teeth and everything on both sides give it a good liberal coating of this and the thing i like about this i'll just set it to the side let it dry the thing i like about this product is uh it doesn't have any silicone or anything like that in it for those of you who do a bit of woodworking you'll know that you don't want a silicone product on any kind of blades you're using because it'll sometimes leave marks on the wood and it won't take stains and finishes afterwards because of the silicone so so this doesn't do that so let's see what this water and baking soda did here so again so this is probably soaked for about i don't know 15 minutes or so and i kind of stood this this uh router bit down in there and you can you could see before how dirty it was and i'll just give it a little scrub here with this brush see what we got the outer bits are a little tougher to deal with just because they're hard to hang on to because they're that much smaller it's actually coming off taking a little more scrubbing on here but this router bit was bad just having a close look at it actually looks pretty good compared to how it was rub that bit with my fingernail dry it off here and i'll show you so you can see router bit came quite clean compared to how it was and uh it'll cut a lot better with it when it doesn't have all that build up of uh grime and everything on it from cutting just they build up heat more when they're all dirty like that so the blades looking pretty good uh let me just uh maybe bring the camera down here so you can have a look okay so the the blade here you can see oh you can see it gets shinier just as i rub it with my finger it's taking that little much work to to clean it off i think the other side was a little dirtier i'll just flip it over here see if i can get it so you can see this side's a little a little more dirty even after it's soaked but let's just see and one thing i'm noticing the water it's a little dirty but it's not as dirty as that spray nine was after sitting and this blade was probably not as dirty as the other one let's just see what happens when i give this a little scrub i'll only scrub this one spot and then we'll we can compare it side by side with the area i didn't scrub so it's not looking too bad let me just see if that this is just some brazen color on there no there's still a little bit of goop on there so i'd say this isn't working quite as good but i didn't really let it sit that long either so uh let me just dry that off so you can see better so you can see here this is where i scrubbed with the brush and as we come around here where i didn't scrub you can tell it's getting a little a little dirtier you can see a little bit more dirt up here on the side so i'd say it it works but it's definitely going to take a little longer a little longer to soak in there and get that off but it some came off right off the start with it just sitting there oops but i think i think that system if a person let that sit for at least half an hour it would be pretty good okay so uh we had that area that i i scrubbed off um that was soaked in the water in the baking soda solution now i'm just gonna scrub i put some spray nine over here let it sit for about five minutes kind of beside that area and i just wanted to scrub that and see if you could really see a noticeable difference and i i can tell already it's it's definitely pulling more stuff off so the spray nine is a little a little quicker maybe a little better uh well they look pretty similar now that i've got it side by side other than here's where i scrubbed with the water or scrubbed with the water soak in this area basically in there and this is where i did the spray nine you can see that in the spray nine area it took this heat mark off a little more there easier than it did over here so i don't know if i'm sold on the hot water and baking soda set up yet but uh i think um i'll kind of stick with the spray nine because i know that works maybe if it soaked a little longer with hot water and baking soda it might work a little better but i guess we'll see another time maybe i'll try it a little longer so anyways i just wanted to show you that and uh i think it's time to wrap things up kind of made a short video into a really long one like usual sorry about that uh just a couple last things as usual i want you to click on your notifications at the bottom there what what do you mean you haven't subscribed yet well get on it subscribe click the subscribe button right there that one that one click it click it there you go now you can set your notifications turn them on so you can be notified anytime that we post something new and uh as usual we'll have some links in the description of the video that's down below down below where you hit the subscribe you'll see description yeah right in there that's where we're gonna have the links we'll have links there for facebook patreon all that kind of stuff maybe i'll throw a link in there for this uh for this uh blade coat blade bit lubricant again not sponsored but i like the stuff okay now head out to the shop and get those blades cleanhi i'm shannon from houseimprovements.com in this video i'm going to tell you a little secret that all the blade manufacturers don't want you to know and that is when your blade starts seeming like it's getting dull or getting really dirty and gummed up on the sides you don't need to throw it away and go get a new one you heck you don't even have to take it and get it sharpened right away a little bit of cleaning on your blades when they start getting gummed up on the side and you'll be able to get a lot more usage out of every blade so uh an example this this isn't only just for saw blades but even for router bits those sorts of things you can see this one here this router bit how dirty it's getting by cleaning that off it's almost going to seem like a new blade again here's a saw blade here you can see the pitch and stuff on each on the side of each teeth and that can cause some binding and even some smoking and that sort of thing when you're pushing it through the saw which sometimes leads you to believe that maybe your blade is too dull it needs to be replaced or sent away to be sharpened well i've been cleaning my own blades for quite a while and i've i started out with chemical cleaners and those sorts of things designed for cleaning blades and what i've found is i've started using just plain old simple spray nine even the rv type spray nine is even better but uh some spray nine soak the blade on in that for a little while and then you can use a brass or a plastic bristle brush and scrub those blades they clean right up and they almost seem like new again when you put them back in the saw and use them so you can get quite a few more uses out of the blades before you send them away to get sharpened and that yes that is a thing you can have your blades sharpened in most areas you'll find somebody that'll do it and uh you know if you've got a blade that you spend over 100 or 150 on you want to get as much use out of that as you can as long as you've got decent carbides and the carbides aren't damaged you should be able to have it sharp pretty easily even sometimes i have a blade where the carbide gets damaged and they'll just braise a new one on new tooth on there and sharpen it up with the rest of them okay so i'm going to show you uh what i normally do with one of these blades here so i i just have a pan that i use all the time just big enough to to put the blade in throw your blade right in there and just dose it in spray nine so get lots in there because you want you want enough in there that the blades you know sitting in there soaking even on the bottom side that these are kind of teeth are being covered with the solution so i've got a good generous amount in there and i'm just going to let that blade soak for about 20 minutes or so i'll just put a little bit more on it when it needs it i used to even just keep a container with some spray nine in it and i just kept reusing it all the time but last time i used it i guess i got rid of it so it's time to kind of start over so just let that soak i can already see you can already see that the spray nine down there in the bottom is turning color if you get away from the foam there you can see that it's turning dark and that's it's just already getting some of the tarnish and sap and and everything off the side of that blade so like i said you want to just set that to the side let it soak for 15 20 minutes half an hour or whatever and we'll come back to it now something else that uh i've heard lots about is kind of a non-chemical way to do this so i'm gonna try that in this video as well i think it's probably gonna take a little longer to soak but uh doesn't matter we'll uh give it a try and see what it does so i've got this other blade neither one of these blades were real bad yet but uh i was wanting to clean that one over there and i found this other one hanging on the wall and it's a little bit dirty so we're gonna do it too so i'm just using the lid off a five gallon pail it's just about the right size nice size for a 10 inch blade so lay the blade in there and uh so the other thing i've been hearing a lot about is just boiling hot water so we're just gonna basically get the blade submerged in hot water like so and then go into the kitchen and just grab some plain old baking soda or sorry baking yeah baking soda and you want to sprinkle it sprinkle it around on the teeth again i've never done this so we'll see if it works or not and just let it sit you can see it it's actually uh bubbling up here already yeah that water's definitely hot so we'll just uh let that sit and i'm probably going to let this one sit for a little longer than i will the other let's let's see when i come back to this one how long i've let it sit and how well it does so we'll set that to the side get it gear out of the way and uh we'll come back and see how both these blades made up okay so i'm back so this blade actually sat for about 15 minutes i knew it wouldn't take as much because uh it wasn't real bad and uh actually some of the teeth are just clean just sitting here like this so yeah i just take that brush see if i can get it up here where you guys can see a little better i just take the brush and just go around i kind of i usually kind of go in the direction that the teeth are instead of against the teeth i can't really hurt it with a plastic brush or a brass brush and i just give it a little bit of a scrub sometimes you'll get some uh discoloration on the body of the blade as well so it's a good time to kind of clean that up and just get everything looking nice and clean and less friction the better so that's cleaned up really good just flip it over here and i mean this side's almost clean without even scrubbing on it so you can kind of see there it's really not too bad i'll give it a little scrub and it'll just shine right up and get that last little bit on there that's uh that is kind of baked on a little bit more like i said this is about 10 minutes or so i only have it sitting i even had some spray paint on that blade and it's even coming off okay so this was the spray nine and it uh you know it's it's definitely less expensive by the way spray nine's not sponsoring us on this they didn't send us that bottle nothing like that you know me uh just showing you the tricks that i use so um yeah this is probably a tenth of the cost of the actual blade cleaner stuff you can buy and it really does the same job and it isn't as harsh i mean i'm not even using rubber gloves like i said the uh the boat an rv spray nine works even better on a really dirty blade because it's a little more of a gel it just hangs on there and uh and it easily uh eats away anything that's left so i think i'm gonna wipe that off and just see what we've got so i just take a a rag and clean it up now just be careful because the blade's sharp so you don't want to get too carried away end up cutting your fingers yeah that's looking pretty good already a little more soaking it would have uh would have got right into the corners and even if i scrubbed a little more it would have got every little bit off but it actually even in that short amount of time did a really good job of cleaning it up see so you can see here teeth are all nice and shiny and clean again they don't have that film that builds up right on the side of the carbide tooth there and uh even when you look at the look of the face of the tooth there's nothing on there either okay so that was the spray nine i knew that was gonna work because that's the method that i use uh now one one other thing i do i find that uh even the other cleaners they used to once you did it it leaves a little bit of a film on there so then uh i found this product again not sponsored by them or anything uh it's just a blade coat it's kind of a blade lubricant and i just give the blades a little bit of a spray after i've dried them real good with this and let them sit for a few minutes before i use them and uh really helps with the friction and and that because like i said sometimes you get a little bit of a film on there from that and i suppose if you rinsed it with water and wiped it down again you might get rid of that anyways but i like this product it works pretty good so i just spray the whole body and the teeth and everything on both sides give it a good liberal coating of this and the thing i like about this i'll just set it to the side let it dry the thing i like about this product is uh it doesn't have any silicone or anything like that in it for those of you who do a bit of woodworking you'll know that you don't want a silicone product on any kind of blades you're using because it'll sometimes leave marks on the wood and it won't take stains and finishes afterwards because of the silicone so so this doesn't do that so let's see what this water and baking soda did here so again so this is probably soaked for about i don't know 15 minutes or so and i kind of stood this this uh router bit down in there and you can you could see before how dirty it was and i'll just give it a little scrub here with this brush see what we got the outer bits are a little tougher to deal with just because they're hard to hang on to because they're that much smaller it's actually coming off taking a little more scrubbing on here but this router bit was bad just having a close look at it actually looks pretty good compared to how it was rub that bit with my fingernail dry it off here and i'll show you so you can see router bit came quite clean compared to how it was and uh it'll cut a lot better with it when it doesn't have all that build up of uh grime and everything on it from cutting just they build up heat more when they're all dirty like that so the blades looking pretty good uh let me just uh maybe bring the camera down here so you can have a look okay so the the blade here you can see oh you can see it gets shinier just as i rub it with my finger it's taking that little much work to to clean it off i think the other side was a little dirtier i'll just flip it over here see if i can get it so you can see this side's a little a little more dirty even after it's soaked but let's just see and one thing i'm noticing the water it's a little dirty but it's not as dirty as that spray nine was after sitting and this blade was probably not as dirty as the other one let's just see what happens when i give this a little scrub i'll only scrub this one spot and then we'll we can compare it side by side with the area i didn't scrub so it's not looking too bad let me just see if that this is just some brazen color on there no there's still a little bit of goop on there so i'd say this isn't working quite as good but i didn't really let it sit that long either so uh let me just dry that off so you can see better so you can see here this is where i scrubbed with the brush and as we come around here where i didn't scrub you can tell it's getting a little a little dirtier you can see a little bit more dirt up here on the side so i'd say it it works but it's definitely going to take a little longer a little longer to soak in there and get that off but it some came off right off the start with it just sitting there oops but i think i think that system if a person let that sit for at least half an hour it would be pretty good okay so uh we had that area that i i scrubbed off um that was soaked in the water in the baking soda solution now i'm just gonna scrub i put some spray nine over here let it sit for about five minutes kind of beside that area and i just wanted to scrub that and see if you could really see a noticeable difference and i i can tell already it's it's definitely pulling more stuff off so the spray nine is a little a little quicker maybe a little better uh well they look pretty similar now that i've got it side by side other than here's where i scrubbed with the water or scrubbed with the water soak in this area basically in there and this is where i did the spray nine you can see that in the spray nine area it took this heat mark off a little more there easier than it did over here so i don't know if i'm sold on the hot water and baking soda set up yet but uh i think um i'll kind of stick with the spray nine because i know that works maybe if it soaked a little longer with hot water and baking soda it might work a little better but i guess we'll see another time maybe i'll try it a little longer so anyways i just wanted to show you that and uh i think it's time to wrap things up kind of made a short video into a really long one like usual sorry about that uh just a couple last things as usual i want you to click on your notifications at the bottom there what what do you mean you haven't subscribed yet well get on it subscribe click the subscribe button right there that one that one click it click it there you go now you can set your notifications turn them on so you can be notified anytime that we post something new and uh as usual we'll have some links in the description of the video that's down below down below where you hit the subscribe you'll see description yeah right in there that's where we're gonna have the links we'll have links there for facebook patreon all that kind of stuff maybe i'll throw a link in there for this uh for this uh blade coat blade bit lubricant again not sponsored but i like the stuff okay now head out to the shop and get those blades clean\n"