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Subject:Re: scraping glue in the sun
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:30:53 -0700

I couldn't do it, honestly. At least in a cold climate you can put on a sweater, what can you do when it is hot? Wet T-shirt?

alistair

On 2011-08-01, at 6:07 PM, ralph meyermann wrote:

> Try 99�f with heat index of 106� putting interior back together and Hi Fi install the new canvass is next week what sweaty fun
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>> On Aug 1, 2011 7:59 PM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:
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>> I've been out in the sun (here near Victoria BC) scraping and sanding off the old glue from the upper bunks plywood - oh sure Westfalia, use an adhesive that lets the paper go in patches but sticks like you know what to the plywood - and it is nice and sunny and only 24 C. But jeez, I'm dying out there.
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>> How the heck can anyone do anything down south, like where Dave McNeely lives for instance?
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>> Just in case any other fool wishes to remove that glue from the plywood, I found that using a sharp paint scraper to remove most of the bubblegum-like glue, followed by a random orbit sander with 40 grit paper was the fastest way of many slow ways I tried (heat gun and scraper, solvent)
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>> alistair
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