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Re: Recycling Painted Cedar
By:Tony
Date: 9/12/2001, 5:29 pm
In Response To: Recycling Painted Cedar (Brian Wegener)

Better check to see if the paint is oil base. Oil may prohibit epoxy from bonding properly

To check if paint is oil base: flick off a sizable piece of paint and light it with a match. Oil base will continue to burn; latex (water base) will go out.
Good luck.

: I have enough cedar boards for another boat, but it is painted on one side.
: To remove the paint, I tried running it through a planer but it gums up
: the knives quickly and the owner's manual of the says not to do that.

: What is the quickest, cleanest, safest, easiest way to remove housepaint from
: western red cedar? Heat gun?

: Brian

Messages In This Thread

Recycling Painted Cedar
Brian Wegener -- 9/12/2001, 12:25 am
Re: Recycling Painted Cedar
Tony -- 9/12/2001, 5:29 pm
Re: Recycling Painted Cedar
Rehd -- 9/12/2001, 12:45 am
Re: Recycling Painted Cedar
Brian Wegener -- 9/12/2001, 9:45 am
rip them as is
Paul G. Jacobson -- 9/12/2001, 6:36 pm
Re: Recycling Painted Cedar
Jim -- 9/12/2001, 11:43 am
Re: Recycling Painted Cedar
Rehd -- 9/12/2001, 10:39 am