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Subject:Re: scraping glue in the sun
From:ralph meyermann
Date:Mon, 1 Aug 2011 19:07:28 -0600

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

On Aug 1, 2011 7:59 PM, "Alistair Bell" <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

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.

How the heck can anyone do anything down south, like where Dave McNeely
lives for instance?

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)

alistair