zxcvbob wrote:
> Nancy Young wrote:

>> You know, it got gunky. I thought it might, and I wasn't
>> disappointed.
>>
>>> I
>>> don't bother oiling those parts, just be sure all parts are
>>> dry/clean before reassembling/storing.

That's a common theme, though the parts arrived with a
coating of oil, I guess it's not necessary.

> Use oven cleaner on the gunked-up steel (from the vegetable oil.) DO
> NOT get any oven cleaner on aluminum. It will take it right off.

Yeah, I learned if you don't notice you touched oven cleaner with
your arm, it'll take that part right off, too! (laugh)

> I just store my grinder knives and plates in a drawer, not installed
> in the grinder. I wash them with HOT water, dry, and put them away
> without any oil coating. I have some that are over 30 years old and
> they are fine (discolored a bit, like a carbon steel kitchen knife)
> HTH

Thank you very much. That's why I ask here, voices of experience.

nancy