Comments on: Tips: Toothbrushes, Not Just For Teeth

By: Aaron Perry

Aaron Perry — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:06:39 +0000

I cut the brush off 2 of them and made wheel brushes for my bandsaw. I just epoxied them to a small piece of aluminum, just like the nice Carter ones.

By: David Bryan

David Bryan — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:45:06 +0000

And in a pinch you can make a dandy shiv out of one. In a real pinch.

By: Clark

Clark — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:10:56 +0000

The tough, flexible handles of name-brand toothbrushes have been real useful to me. Shape the end furthest from the brush into a bevel with a coarse file and you have a non-marring chisel, great for removing caulk, or anything that you might use a thumbnail for (until your thumbnail breaks).

Heating the handle lets you bend it with ease, resulting in a purpose-made brush to clean inside places a straight brush just can’t fit.

Yay toothbrushes!

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:52:44 +0000

The cheap motorized toothbrushes do an amazing job cleaning stuff in tight places and in corners. I was really impressed after using a regular toothbrush with little success that the motorized one did such a great job with less effort.

By: Davo

Davo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:49:30 +0000

Yup. Toothpicks and dental floss are useful for lots of things, too.

By: Benjamen Johnson

Benjamen Johnson — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:48:53 +0000

I use toothbrushes and Simple Green to clean pitch from my router bits. I bought a brass brush to do the same job, but I’ve found old toothbrushes actually seem to work better.

By: chs

chs — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:40:04 +0000

Hell yeah! I keep a couple toothbrushes in my gun cleaning kit. They work wonders for scrubbing gun parts clean.