How the potato saved my GRAVER

[Douglas]

A few weeks back I asked if C-Max gravers have a life.
Well I was given some good advice, but one intrigued me, from Lee Griffith and the use of a potato.
Lee
Drawing from my experience as an Idaho potato farmer, I will let you in on one of the little known secrets regarding tool life, especially carbide. Giving it a rest, It works much better if you stick it in a potato for a week or so. It has something to do with the acids reacting with the metal and allowing the molecules to realign.
Well that is exactly what I did, and it worked. I have used that graver for a week now and it has not chipped off since.
Thanks all of you for your great advice.

 

[monk]

you sure that's not the "placebo effect" ?

 

[Red Green]

Potatoes have strange powers, look what they did for McDonalds. Who cares about those little burgers, they had the best fries back in the day :biggrin:, fried in beef tallow , hummm hummm deadly .

 

[Beathard]

Someone could break a tooth on a baked potato with a nickel in it.

 

[Gargoyle]

It is also a great way to clean old nickel you might find with a metal detector. I cleaned up an old coal black colored "shield nickel" I dug at Bedford Springs by pushing it edge wise into a potato and leaving it there for a week....

Did it really improve the taste of the potato?

 

[Lee]

Mr. Potatohead slips into my shop at night to fight pirates, do my design work, and sweep the floor. The potato man and I are tight. He's also the one that told me about the secret graver molecule realignment.

 

[Dulltool]

If the graver chips after this treatment...... would that then be a potato chip?

 

[mvangle]

which variety of potato works best?

 

[FANCYGUN]

Van
Here's a professional secret........if you want people to look at your engraving and say."wow, that is so sweet" you must use sweet potatoes not the run of the mill spud