The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?
--

Mike

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Is it worth doing though? For that sort of thing I use a gas torch and a
shave hook.

On Fri, 14 May 2021 16:37:48 +0100, Chris Bacon
wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Is it worth doing though? For that sort of thing I use a gas torch and a
shave hook.

I've done a lot of that in the past too. I don't like the fumes, or
wearing a respirator much and I've got a yen for a planer. I suppose
my question is really, will a planer do it?
--

Mike

On 14/05/2021 16:58, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I suppose my question is really, will a planer do it?

You should certainly wear a respirator, and it won't do mouldings at all
easily (some wag may comment about adjusting the cutter with an angle
grinder...).

I suppose it'd do it, you might have to clamp up your workpieces though,
and I bet they'd come out a little undersized. Me, I am not keen on
electric planers (but I have a planer/thicknesser).

On Fri, 14 May 2021 17:25:16 +0100, Chris Bacon
wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:58, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I suppose my question is really, will a planer do it?

You should certainly wear a respirator, and it won't do mouldings at all
easily (some wag may comment about adjusting the cutter with an angle
grinder...).

I suppose it'd do it, you might have to clamp up your workpieces though,
and I bet they'd come out a little undersized. Me, I am not keen on
electric planers (but I have a planer/thicknesser).

There's something about chemical strippers that leave the surface not
at all like clean fresh wood. I kind of fancy getting down to natural
looking softwood.
--

Mike

On 14/05/2021 16:58, Mike Halmarack wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2021 16:37:48 +0100, Chris Bacon
wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Is it worth doing though? For that sort of thing I use a gas torch and a
shave hook.

I've done a lot of that in the past too. I don't like the fumes, or
wearing a respirator much and I've got a yen for a planer. I suppose
my question is really, will a planer do it?

Any power tool with paint seems to be an issue through the melting of
the paint and it sticking like the proverbial.

Whether this applies to a planer cutting through paint, someone here may
have tried it?

What's wrong with paint stripping companies, or they too expensive?

I've heard of people making their own caustic paint-stripper using
caustic soda and wallpaper paste to thicken up the mixture with mixed
results

It all sounds like hard work to me.

On Fri, 14 May 2021 17:34:40 +0100, Fredxx
wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:58, Mike Halmarack wrote:
On Fri, 14 May 2021 16:37:48 +0100, Chris Bacon
wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Is it worth doing though? For that sort of thing I use a gas torch and a
shave hook.

I've done a lot of that in the past too. I don't like the fumes, or
wearing a respirator much and I've got a yen for a planer. I suppose
my question is really, will a planer do it?

Any power tool with paint seems to be an issue through the melting of
the paint and it sticking like the proverbial.

Whether this applies to a planer cutting through paint, someone here may
have tried it?

What's wrong with paint stripping companies, or they too expensive?

I've heard of people making their own caustic paint-stripper using
caustic soda and wallpaper paste to thicken up the mixture with mixed
results

It all sounds like hard work to me.

That's something else I'm keen on minimising these days.
--

Mike

On 14/05/2021 16:37, Chris Bacon wrote:
On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
Â* I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Is it worth doing though? For that sort of thing I use a gas torch and a
shave hook.

Me too, but is there any possibility of lead paint ?, if so maybe
not a good idea unless you have a means of avoiding breathing what
you are burning off.

Power planer might create the least dust.

Mike Halmarack wrote:
The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.

We recently had a water leak, and the water caused the paint to peel right
off the door frame it leaked upon (from the back side). Obviously you would
risk raising the grain, but perhaps worth a try?

(I'm now wondering what the best way to strip the rest of the frame, given I
don't want to re-saturate the wall. Possibly spraying and gradually
peeling?)

Theo

On 14 May 2021 17:15:41 +0100 (BST), Theo
wrote:

Mike Halmarack wrote:
The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.

We recently had a water leak, and the water caused the paint to peel right
off the door frame it leaked upon (from the back side). Obviously you would
risk raising the grain, but perhaps worth a try?

(I'm now wondering what the best way to strip the rest of the frame, given I
don't want to re-saturate the wall. Possibly spraying and gradually
peeling?)

Theo

That's definitely a method I hadn't thought of.
--

Mike

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Whether it's worth bothering with depends on the value of your time and
the quality of the timber but ... I spoke to someone this week who has
started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

wrote in message
...
On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Whether it's worth bothering with depends on the value of your time and
the quality of the timber but ... I spoke to someone this week who has
started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

Dunno. Someone I know got that done with a very decent dining
room table. It ended up nothing like the job done properly.

On 15/05/2021 03:00, Rod Speed wrote:
wrote in message
spoke to someone this week who
has started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

Dunno. Someone I know got that done with a very decent dining
room table. It ended up nothing like the job done properly.

It's an established way of doing huge damage to the appearence of
internal exposed timber beams.

Chris Bacon wrote
Rod Speed wrote
wrote

I spoke to someone this week who has started
using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture
for refinishing, apparently it works well.

Dunno. Someone I know got that done with a very decent dining
room table. It ended up nothing like the job done properly.

It's an established way of doing huge damage to the
appearence of internal exposed timber beams.

Yeah, the table looked awful.

An utter crime. I still know them.

On Sat, 15 May 2021 19:13:15 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Yeah, the table looked awful.

An utter crime. I still know them.

No, you don't, you forsaken senile cretin! Most likely you never knew them
and only saw it on TV, as usual! BG

--
Website (from 2007) dedicated to the 86-year-old senile Australian
cretin's pathological trolling:
https://www.pcreview.co.uk/threads/r...d-faq.2973853/

On Sat, 15 May 2021 12:00:04 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


Whether it's worth bothering with depends on the value of your time and
the quality of the timber but ... I spoke to someone this week who has
started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

Dunno. Someone I know got that done with a very decent dining
room table. It ended up nothing like the job done properly.

....and he HAD to auto-contradict again! LOL

--
Kerr-Mudd,John addressing the auto-contradicting senile cretin:
"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)"
MID:

On Fri, 14 May 2021 21:39:03 +0100, wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Whether it's worth bothering with depends on the value of your time and
the quality of the timber but ... I spoke to someone this week who has
started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

In my misspent youth and adulthood I've had quite a lot to do with
applying caustic soda, strippers and sandblasting to wood and in most
cases the finish has had a dingyness about it.

Being a retired old fart, I thought it would be a pleasing distraction
from world affairs to take something that was being torn out and
thrown away and attempt to turn it into something that was useful and
appealing to the eye. Though, I'm thinking only of battens to hold
shelves up for now.

The idea of a planer ripping off the surface to a precise depth
leaving a clean and fresh looking surface is the current fantasy I'm
constructing to justify buying an expensive tool at this time of my
life. Maybe if I present the idea well enough, my wife might be
enamoured of the idea too. But that might be rather too much of a
fantasy.
--

Mike

"Mike Halmarack" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 14 May 2021 21:39:03 +0100, wrote:

On 14/05/2021 16:27, Mike Halmarack wrote:
The flat below me is getting a big refurb. I asked if I could raid the
skip. Now I have lots of door linings and simple bull nosed architrave
covered in paint. In my younger days I've resorted to stripper,
scrapers and sanding but I don't have quite the stamina for that these
days.
I'm considering the situation as an excuse to buy a cordless planer,
I see that the blades aren't too pricey.
Is planing going to be the most sensible approach to the problem?

Whether it's worth bothering with depends on the value of your time and
the quality of the timber but ... I spoke to someone this week who has
started using a sand blasting rig to prepare old furniture for
refinishing, apparently it works well.

In my misspent youth and adulthood I've had quite a lot to do with
applying caustic soda, strippers and sandblasting to wood and in most
cases the finish has had a dingyness about it.

Being a retired old fart, I thought it would be a pleasing distraction
from world affairs to take something that was being torn out and
thrown away and attempt to turn it into something that was useful and
appealing to the eye. Though, I'm thinking only of battens to hold
shelves up for now.

The idea of a planer ripping off the surface to a precise depth
leaving a clean and fresh looking surface is the current fantasy I'm
constructing to justify buying an expensive tool at this time of my
life.

I'm in the opposite situation, I am never going to spend
my vast accumulated wealth even if I make it well over
100 so am buying anything that looks like it will be useful.

Including the fancy 36 Makita cordless chainsaw even
tho I don't cut up trees, only cut up what falls off the
trees or goes mad growing over the roof of the house
and banging on it when the wind is blowing a gale.

Maybe if I present the idea well enough, my
wife might be enamoured of the idea too.

Don't have that problem either.

But that might be rather too much of a fantasy.

On Sat, 15 May 2021 19:44:49 +1000, "Rod Speed"
wrote:

my vast accumulated wealth

How very attractive.
--

Mike

On Sat, 15 May 2021 19:44:49 +1000, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:


I'm in the opposite situation

You are ALWAYS in the opposite situation, you abnormal auto-contradicting
senile social misfit!

--
Kerr-Mudd,John addressing the auto-contradicting senile cretin:
"Auto-contradictor Rod is back! (in the KF)"
MID: