Re: The horrors of bleach!!!

On Jun 23, 6:38=A0pm, Woodie <woo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I've neglected my tools for two months now. I haven't been in the shop
> in that long, I admit.
> But I wasn't prepared for what I saw on my tablesaw today.
> A two inch thick layer of sawdust on the cast iron top, with a leaking
> bottle of bleach sitting on the sawdust.
>
> Apparently my ex wife (as if I needed another reason to be angry at her)
> allowed a neighbor to use the saw some time ago while I was out of town.
> He didn't clean off the sawdust. Why the leaky bleach bottle was placed
> on top I'll never know.
>
> Bleach is a powerful oxidizer, and it took 15 minutes with a nylon scrub
> pad on the ROS just to get the caked, rusty sawdust off.
>
> But now I've got these huge black stains on the top that will probably
> never come off.
>
> Grumble, grumble...

Yes, they will come off.  Rub it with wood.

John Martin