sharpening stones - oil or water or what?

[David Weaver]

Loose silicon carbide grit. Check ebay for 60 or 60/90 mix. A pound should be very cheap.

[Malcolm Schweizer]

[QUOTE=Jim Matthews;2188651]Use Lamp Oil as an inexpensive cutting fluid, it's readily available and has no added solvents./QUOTE]

... And if the power ever goes out you can light 'em up and still see what you're doing. :-)

[Jim Matthews]

Handy, to have backup sources.

Did you know that if the power goes out - you've got 75 gallons of fresh drinkable water in your hot water tank?

[Jack Curtis]

Handy, to have backup sources.

Did you know that if the power goes out - you've got 75 gallons of fresh drinkable water in your hot water tank?

Well, yeah, depending on the size of your tank; but my plumbing doesn't require electricity.

[Graham Haydon]

What Larry Said

[Jim Koepke]

Well, yeah, depending on the size of your tank; but my plumbing doesn't require electricity.

Mine does. We live in an area with electricity as our utility for everything. If the power goes out about the best we can do is make coffee on top of the wood stove.

They did some work around here recently and our electricity is now much more reliable.

jtk

[John Crawford]

Loose silicon carbide grit. Check ebay for 60 or 60/90 mix. A pound should be very cheap.

Thanks for this advice--you saved me approx. 1000 hours. The 60/90 took care of my hard Arkansas in about 10 minutes....