here is a good little tip

[monkey boy]

im cleaning and sorting out my kit after the weekend in the woods.
thought i would experiment with a few products and found that cleaning my billy that has been burned and black with soot for a while now, using an old tooth brush and some tooth paste has restored its shine and looks as good as new. I just I would share that with you all, you may already know it but it was very affective better than baking soda in my view

 

[Hugo]

Was it a good weekend apart from the hole in your basha.

 

[monkey boy]

yeah it was nice, im really gutted about the basha tho im gonna try fixing it for now maybe ad a new one in an xmas list somewhere, gonna get out to epsom common soon gonna really scout the place out first

 

[Hugo]

When I was young the best part of the common was the private part, that's behind the big ponds on the right after a short walk.
If you see rhododendrons your in it.

 

[stuey]

Will have to give the toothpaste method a try today. I need to scrub my zebra billy up after yestrday afternoons brimble
I usually make up a paste of woodash and water and smear it liberally over the pot leaving it to "soak" for a few minutes before scrubbing it off with a green scotchbrite. The alkalinity of the ash paste eats into the tar on your pot and the microabrasiveness of the paste and the scotcbrite does the rest of the work. Same method for woodburner stove glass too except substitute the green scotchbrite for a sheet of damp newspaper dipped in the ash.

Hope you fix your basha ok!

 

[monkey boy]

yeah iv fixed it, its got a few years left in it i hope, let me know how the toothpaste works for ya

 

[Ch@rlie]

nice tip, Id imagine it works like T cut.

(not attempting to hijack just add another possible tip)
While fishing at the weekend a mate cooked up loads of bacon for our breakfast, made a right chard mess in his mess tin, I've not managed to ever make the mess tin look anything like what he achieved while cooking in them. (he used mine the week before as he forgot his own, and took me half an hour to scrub it clean when I got home, using astonish paste) he didnt have any kind of cloth so decided to use the remains of his tin foil from his sandwiches as a scouring pad, within minutes his mess tin was like new with only hot water used.
it either really works or he was lucky it had not had chance to dry solid like mine the previous week.

 

[ganstey]

Similar to Ch@rlie, but not bushcraft, I'm trying to find something that will remove burnt rice from the bottom of an aluminium saucepan. I managed to let it boil dry to the point where it was smoking enough to set off the upstairs smoke alarm :yikes: I've soaked it and used an aluminium swarf scourer, but there's still some left. Might give the toothpaste a try next, but any other ideas welcome.
Graham

 

[Pierr]

Let some vinegar boil in it. Or in last resort some bleech.

 

[rik_uk3]

Why bother cleaning the outside? Waste of time as its going to get sooty again.

 

[monkey boy]

like i say i was just trying something while cleaning my kit and its good to look after the stuff that gets used the most, would say the same about my basha but mistakes happens.

 

[The Lord Poncho]

One of those wire brush attachments you can connect to an electric drill. I had this idea the other week, and i'm going to try it out this weekend!

Not very bushcraft, but then, neither is scrubbing away on a sunday night over the kitchen sink....

wire brush of this type:

http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...=X&ei=s1eDTtD9I6Gh0QXeiLDTAQ&ved=0CFsQ8wIwAQ#

 

[tiger stacker]

One of those wire brush attachments you can connect to an electric drill. I had this idea the other week, and i'm going to try it out this weekend!

Not very bushcraft, but then, neither is scrubbing away on a sunday night over the kitchen sink....

wire brush of this type:

http://www.google.co.uk/products/ca...=X&ei=s1eDTtD9I6Gh0QXeiLDTAQ&ved=0CFsQ8wIwAQ#

When we took over the company stores from the Royal Irish, the coy cooking sets/pots all got cleaned that way. A grinder is just as good removing carbon and other residues.

 

[The Lord Poncho]

When we took over the company stores from the Royal Irish, the coy cooking sets/pots all got cleaned that way. A grinder is just as good removing carbon and other residues.

Excellent- glad it has been tried before, and works! There goes my idea of a patent though....!

 

[stuey]

Why bother cleaning the outside? Waste of time as its going to get sooty again.

Exactly what my better half says each and every time im scrubbing my zebra pot

There is something deeply satisfying about taking a nice shiny pot out of your bag the next time you come to brew up.... i just look after my kit (a bit too) well maybe? Anyone else wash their tent pegs after a trip?!

 

[stuey]

Excellent- glad it has been tried before, and works! There goes my idea of a patent though....!

My mate uses a stitched buffing wheel with some polishing compound on his bench grinder to clean the soot off his pots... takes seconds

Burnt on food on the inside can be lifted by boiling it up on the hob with a dishwasher tablet in the water... just dont inhale the fumes to deeply as it can be a bit nasty

 

[Totumpole]

Anyone else wash their tent pegs after a trip?!

Thats a bit OCD! PLenty good tips on this thread. Gonna try making my zebra shiny again, and my aluminium kettle which is uber caked in sooty muck!

 

[monkey boy]

i clean my pegs to and i bend them back to there origanal shape

 

[stuey]

Thats a bit OCD! !

maybe.... but I see no benefit in having a lightweight tent then carrying around a bag full of soil!

i clean my pegs to and i bend them back to there origanal shape

Good on you exactly the same here! it really bugs me when I help someone with their tent and you find the peg bag full of soil and useless bits of bent metal that wont go in the ground because they are so bent!

Ocd tastic sorry guys

 

[Thoth]

Another vote for washing, and drying pegs after use. I don't want wet mud in with my dry tent! Any damaged pegs are fixed too of course.