<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2715.400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greg</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've found the same to be true.  = I've never had good preformance from water based strippers.  I'll be trying a = new stripper this season and can post the results.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Chick</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=gnewell@ameritech.net = href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net">Greg Newell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 03, 2002 = 8:54 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Water-Base = Laquer</DIV> = <DIV><BR></DIV>Dale,<BR><X-TAB>       =  </X-TAB>I tried the water based strippers a few times and was disappointed with = the results every time.  The regular Toluene stripper did a better = job and at a much faster rate. My 2 cents!<BR><BR>Greg<BR><BR><BR><BR>At 09:24 PM = 6/3/2002, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=Verdana = color=#000040 size=2><I>In a message dated 6/3/2002 4:13:56 PM Pacific Standard = Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.</I><B>rr.com writes:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT = size=2><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">Subj:Water-Base = Laquer, was: Chemical resistant gloves <BR>Date:6/3/2002 4:13:56 PM Pacific = Standard Time<BR>From:<A = href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com</A></FO= NT><FONT color=#000040 size=2><BR>Reply-to:<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>To:<A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A><BR>Sent = from the Internet <BR><BR>        Terry</BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR></FONT><FONT face=Verdana = color=#000040 size=2>  Thanks for the web site. I think this thread on = strippers went round before but, I'll ask anyway as to the effectiveness of these = water based strippers compared to the chemical nasty ones I use.<BR>  = By the way I was at Jon pages shop two weeks ago and I was very sold on the = ebony finish he had done in water based lacquer.<BR>  Thanks>>>>Dale Erwin</FONT><BR></B><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><BR><A href="http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/" = eudora="autourl">http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/</A><BR><BR><A href="http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/oxford.htm" = eudora="autourl">http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/oxford.htm</A><BR><B= R>The first link is Homestead Finishing home page, the second their page = addressing Oxford products. I had bought a 10 gallons of a = stripper that is water-washable and just didn't know much about those that might = require solvents to clean up the stripper mess.<BR><BR>Terry = Farrell<BR>  </BLOCKQUOTE><BR><FONT face=Verdana color=#000040 size=2><I></BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP> <P></X-SIGSEP>Greg Newell<BR><A href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net</A></FONT></I> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>