Again, special Thanks to Dave Slusser for providing this article.
In reference to stripping with a heat gun (we prefer the Wagner available
from Lowe's)....
WOW !!!!!! I accomplished more in ten minutes with that heat gun than I did
in 15 hours with the stripper, steel wool, and a scraper.
HOWEVER, as any good General will tell
you.... you can't win a war without some causalities. Here's the down side
as I see it. Remember that 1/16" thick coating of some kind of sanding
sealer I told you about ?
Well, the heat gun ALSO began to " pop " off
that coating, but NOT everywhere. Only in various spots AND on all the
edges where the Fender factory used it to get those flawlessly round corners
and contours. So now I'm stuck with trying to remove ALL that sanding
sealer AND having to Bondo all the edges and hand sand to regain the
contours.
Now it just looks like an unevenly stacked
four layer PB&J sandwich on all the edges. Kind of a " Saw Tooth "
pattern as you look at it from the side.
But John... I gotta' tell ya', it DID come
right off, and it took very little scraping. Had it not been hot, I
probably could have just brushed it off with my hand. Anyway I better
get to work. Thanks for the help. I'll keep you posted.
As I said, if it had not been hot, I probably could
have just brushed it off with my hand. I'm not sure what good these will
do, but if any, I'm glad to have helped.
Thanks again, Dave....this is some great
information! |
