[Truejeepers]

I know better than this, but fell asleep after putting mineral oil on about 100 Pharoes. I oiled them up and stacked them to be wiped off. Then fell asleep for 8 hrs.

The resulting in shadowing on the edges of my pharoes. The blacks got it the worst. I would say 30 percent have fairly noticable shadowing.

Will it delaminate later do you think or is the worst over? I can deal with this much, but if they peel i'll be pissed

I knew better.

[Nanook]

I think you might be a test case on this one. For this reason I don't think anyone really knows the answer. We could guess, and if I were to guess, I would say they probably won't peel. I would not be suprised if that oil that got inside on the paper would spread a bit more over time.

Lesson learned, I guess...........

Nanook

[Wedge Rock]

Hate to be the one to say it, but...

[JM]

Do you mean the edges of the INLAYS?

[Truejeepers]

Yep the edges of the inlays.

As nanook said, and I kinda thought this would happen, but the oil has spread inward toward the center. I actually think, either the spreading has made it less obvious or it's lightening a little bit.

Not as bad.

Mineral oil good!
Falling asleep on the job BAD!

[Mike Sears]

Originally Posted by Truejeepers

I know better than this, but fell asleep after putting mineral oil on about 100 Pharoes. I oiled them up and stacked them to be wiped off. Then fell asleep for 8 hrs.

The resulting in shadowing on the edges of my pharoes. The blacks got it the worst. I would say 30 percent have fairly noticable shadowing.

Will it delaminate later do you think or is the worst over? I can deal with this much, but if they peel i'll be pissed

I knew better.

The shadowing should gradually disappear with time. I oiled the new Paulson Shaped Inlay chips and noticed this around the edge of the inlay. It was gone two days later. Since you left yours oiled for a longer period of time it will take longer to disappear.

And, of course, a lot of us will be interested in how long that takes. Give us an update when they start to look better.

[jdunford]

I think there was a thread about this happening to Sidepot's Modern Clays after being soaked in oil. Personally, I submersed my Samurais in batches of ~ 100 for 30-120 minutes each and didn't have any problems, although that might be because I used a very high molecular weight white mineral oil from a university chemistry department (thick like molasses). I probably wouldn't do it again due to the horror stories I've heard...

[Truejeepers]

The PHAROES are in much better shape 24hrs later. The shadowing has gone down quite a bit.

Still noticable, but not as bad. I think the white inlay helps it to be less of a noticable problem than say a dark inlay.

To clarify: I tried to take a picture to show the problem, but it wasn't that obvious in a picture as it was in person.

If they had oil setting on them for a couple of hours than this would be a non topic I'm betting. It was 8 hours later that was the issue and stacked together keeping it locked in the inlay space.

Hopefully my little science project saves someone a headache later.

I will update tommorrow.

[bbb_forever]

Try setting your camera to "Digital Macro" mode (if available), then take the photo.

It's better for "close-up" shots where the lens of the camera is very close (less than 1 foot) from the subject.

Macro mode is different from zooming 3x or 4x to get a close-up shot.

[Truejeepers]

The first image is 3 Hours after I noticed, and the second image is 24 Hrs later. You can see the edge is fading away.