New Mill - Help with tooling

[RoboChair]

Originally Posted by matthewdenny

Also how do we go about cleaning the grunge off of it?

Simple Green and water works well with rags. You ca use it on exposed metal but you need to be sure it dries and gets re-oiled after asap.

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by RoboChair

Simple Green and water works well with rags. You ca use it on exposed metal but you need to be sure it dries and gets re-oiled after asap.

This works - but should probably point out that this rag should only be damp and not dripping wet: such that you get a film of water in places you can't oil .

WD40 and monitored doses of Evaporust have worked for me.
Be aware if you leave Evaporust on carbon steel you'll eventually get loose carbon on the surface. So don't do that. It won't harm anything but it will be dang near impossible to remove the dark spots and if you use jeans or something with a pattern that pattern will be on your machine tool for a few decades. All easily avoided by getting it off the machine in 1 hour or so.