On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 23:23:25 -0800, Gunner wrote:

Im going through drawers and tool boxes and dug out my files. A good 75
or more of them, Mill files, knife files, rasps, half round, triangular,
square, cant mill *******s etc etc

Ive been keeping them in IBM punch card drawers...laid on top of each
other..not a good thing.

What method have yall found to be really good for storing files, ready
for use? About 1/3-1/2 have handles. I was at a swap meet some years
ago and bought some 20 or so Nicolson handles, all new red plastic and
have installed them on the most used files..and a bunch of the other
files came with handles.

Files run in length from 6"-20" long. Some of the woodworking rasps are
pretty big.

Many of the handles have holes in them so I could..could hang them from
spikes..but not all do.

I dont use files a hell of a lot..but when I do..I like em sharp and not
have to hunt for them.

Ive been the one to snag the files from machine shops that go out of
business..so I have a bunch of them, and a fair number of duplicates.

Oh..any good suggestions for sharpening the few that need it? I know
that many places dip them in acid. What kind and at what concentration?
A box of battery acid perhaps?

Thanks!

Gunner, back to file carding aluminum from some files (GACK!!) and a
bit of rust on one or 3


I slide them into bits of bicycle inner tube. But I only have a dozen
files.

Dunno about sharpening -- I'd like to hear the answer.

When my dad did a lot of bodywork he sent his files out to be sharpened
by a guy that reground them, and was pretty contemptuous of the folks
that used acid -- but lead files are much coarser than regular files, and
none of the ones I saw were diamond pattern.

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