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Stuart Noble

fred wrote:
In article .com
, writes
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

How do they do that? Are you sure they don't just drive the wax further
into the base like white spirit would? How do they lift something out of
a porous material? Just asking

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.