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Default Removing Wax Finish from Interior Doors

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Hi, I need to remove a coloured Wax finish from a number of Interior
doors to take them back to the bare wood so they can be refinished,

Does anyone know the most effective and fastest way of doing this,
using white spirit or sandpaper seems to slowly do the trick but will
take days to finish this way,

Are there any better ways of going about this task?

Snowboard base cleaner. The citrus based cleaners (Red being one) are
used to clean old wax out of porous snowboard bases and are amazingly
effective, think supermarket citrus cleaner x10. Only available in small
bottles (250ml) and expensive (10GBP) but used sparingly it would do
several doors.

Available from S/B shops & online. eg:
http://www.edgeriders.com/catalog/pr...oducts_id/1431

Scrape off any excess wax first and finish with a wipe of white spirit to get
rid of the cleaner.
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