----- Original Message ----- From: Fred Sturm <fssturm@unm.edu> To: <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:27 PM Subject: removal of lacquer/keytop | A few months ago, Horace Greeley, and then Roger Jolly, mentioned | removing keytop solution from a set of hammers by saturating with | acetone and letting it run down the tails (more or less). While reading | their description, I thought to myself (not for the first time) | "Wouldn't it be great if you could put the hammers in solvent and soak | the stuff out?" But this time, I thought a little further, and decided | that was possible. Yes and I was t hinking about helping it along by sucking the stuff out with a wet-dry shop vacuum cleaner. Thinking further, there might be a problem, the fumes from acetone would probably be igninted by the spark from the electric motor and ..... well ...... you get the picture......UGLY!! KABOOOM !! I hope this won't be regarded as a frivolous post to caut, but I am considering buying a wet-dry vac to use in refinishing. Of course now I know I can only use it with non flamible agents such as TSP but if it doesn't work for that maybe I can use it to wash down and clean up the carpet (or the car) after the aging family/farm dog who gets "loose" with the slightest diatery deviation from Purina, like 4 month old sheep afterbirth. I guess they smell better in Spring than at 10 below. I guess I better sign off now. ---ric
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