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Default Tips for releasing paint sealed sash windows

NT wrote:
On Jul 2, 8:46 pm, Stuart Noble wrote:
S Viemeister wrote:
NT wrote:
No need to buy a putty knife, a big kitchen knife would do fine, one
without fine serrations. Its preferable to run it down the join
several times than to dig it in and pull downward, less chance of
minor damage and easier.


A _kitchen_ knife??!! Okay if you have crap kitchen tools, but not if
you have good ones.


Nothing is as thin as a scraper, which is the main consideration.


Half the depth of the ground part of such knives tends to be thinner
than a scraper. You're not putting the whole depth of the knife in,
the paint penetration is limited.


Buy a cheap knife for that purpose then, but leave the kitchen ones
alone. I hate seeing good tools mistreated.