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From: Giff Hammar (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 25 2004 - 21:38:15 EDT
We revarnished the cabin sole this spring. I bought a Sears
belt sander and had at them. Since the top was a veneer, I
took extra care to keep the sander flat. Works well, but you
need to be careful. I also bought one of the belt cleaners
(looks like a huge gum eraser) and it did a super job of
getting the old varnish off the belt so I could use the
belt longer.
Giff
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Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 7:59 PM
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Subject: RE: lv-ab: Change of Subject, Stripping varnish of a cabin
sole!
I stripped varnish from the cabin sole and refinished. My cabin sole is
veneer and obviously I had to be very careful.
I found scrapers at Home Depot that are actually made of wood, for use in
removing finishes on antiques and delicate wood.
The scrapers worked GREAT and in fact I was able to get a bit agressive with
a few tough spots too. I applied furniture stripper, waited the requisite
amount of time and it came off quite easily with the wooden scrapers. THen I
lightly sanded (really lightly) and finished.
Hope this helps.
Jeff
>From: "Hank Janssen" <>
>To: <>
>Subject: lv-ab: Change of Subject, Stripping varnish of a cabin sole!
>Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 15:24:35 -0700 (PDT)
>
>
>
>Well, here is a subject to back away from the disagreements on insurance.
>
>I am currently in the process of stripping my cabin sole of my sailboat to
>bare wood and than applying Ultimate Sole.
>
>I have taken several of the floorboards from the boat, and applied Peel
>Away Marine Strip. It works okay, but is very time consuming and messy at
>times.
>
>You apply the paste to the floorboards, put over special paper, and within
>6 to 24 hours you can lift up the paper which than in theory comes up with
>all the varnish.
>
>It comes up with about 80% of the varnish.
>
>Once you remove the remaining 20% you need to nutralize the floor (because
>of the stuff in the Peel Away) and wash the floor. That with drying takes
>an additional 2 days. (Messy and time consuming)
>
>This process worked very well on the floorboards I took from the boat. And
>I have applied 4 coats of the basic Ultimate Sole and should start tonight
>on the 1st of the 4 gloss coats.
>
>So far the results are very impressive. The wood looks stellar with the
>new varnish.
>
>But I am not sure if I want to use this same procedure on the rest of the
>sole of the boat. (A 44foot Norseman sailboat) It is very time consuming.
>And it is hard to keep the paste away from the sides where it touches the
>other woodwork on the boat.
>
>The reason I used the Peel it Stuff was to see if I can do it without
>damaging the wood with anything sharp to get the varnish off. (Scraping is
>still required in places with the stuff, but I am using plastic scrapers)
>
>I hear that using a heat gun with a stripper is something that works just
>as well and will not result in scratched up wood.
>
>Anyway, anybody have any recommendations on how to best strip the cabin
>sole to bare wood?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Hank.
>
>
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