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    I have some cookie cutters from when I was a child, they are old and worn, and still hold their shape, and I use them to make excellent cookies with my son.

    So I'm wondering do you have any cleaning tips for metal that is 20 years old. They are beginning to rust and generally look 20 years old. My mother was suggesting painting them, but I don't want it to rub off onto our creations.

    Any suggestions?
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    fine sand paper and cooking oil, then wash with hot water and coat them with cooking oil again. If they are really bad like pitted metal and you just have to have them............... There is sand blasting. Take them to a machine shop or welding shop have the sand blasted (do one first it leaves a roughened finish). Then take them home, wash them, then coat them with cooking oil.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
    fine sand paper and cooking oil, then wash with hot water and coat them with cooking oil again. If they are really bad like pitted metal and you just have to have them............... There is sand blasting. Take them to a machine shop or welding shop have the sand blasted (do one first it leaves a roughened finish). Then take them home, wash them, then coat them with cooking oil.
    why i found this amusing, i don't know... but you know WAAAAY too much about preserving cookie cutters!

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    Quote Originally Posted by blayze View Post
    why i found this amusing, i don't know... but you know WAAAAY too much about preserving cookie cutters!
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    Quote Originally Posted by blayze View Post
    why i found this amusing, i don't know... but you know WAAAAY too much about preserving cookie cutters!
    ahhahahahahah
    Yeah I am a Gunsmithing student. I am machining metals every day. The best way to make metal shine is old fashioned sand paper and oil. I use baby oil as it is less toxic and smells better. Cooking oil wood be more appropriate since the will go towards foods consumed. I buy old tools in pawn shops and antique shops and refurbish them too. Some people are really surprised to find out what something is and what it is for. I want to save all the tools nailed to the walls of stupid neighborhood sports bars. You here that Applebee's!

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    Thanks mate! The simplicity of the plan seems to tell me the truth of it.
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    oh yeah sand paper is used incrementally as each removes the scratches left by the one before it. 80 grit to remove machine tool marks, 180 grit to remove the scratches left by 80 , so on and so forth. Since we are talking cookie cutters try starting with 320 then 40, 500, then 600. I think you will be pleased. Wrap the sand paper around a large pink school eraser as a bcking so most of the sand paper is in contact. You fingers won't get so sore pinching the paper together. For curves you can use any round cylinders, I use dowel rod, 35mm film canisters, and little pieces of pipe or tubing cut to 2 or 3 inches in length.

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    Why not try cleaning them with CLR? You can get it at the hardware store. Its supposed to clean away Calcium,Lime and Rust...hense CLR. Worth a shot, they advertise cleaning a coffee pot with it, so it can hurt cookie cutters.

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