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Subject:Re: scraping glue in the sun
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 1 Aug 2011 18:32:34 -0700

Well you are one lucky guy. Perhaps Westfalia "refined" the glue?

alistair

On 2011-08-01, at 6:08 PM, BenT Syncro wrote:

> Funny that. I pulled one corner of my upper bunk. The covering came w/o leaving any pieces on the wood. No gummy residue either. 
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> BenT
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> sent from my bald wood
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> On Aug 1, 2011, at 5:46 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