Hi folks – I need your help again.
I have in my hands a very nice old (was my great grandmother’s) maple four poster bed. One of the posts has broken again at the doweled joint in the turning – dowel is still intact, but the turning itself has split. The new split is clean, and I expect it to glue easily. The problem is an old split that was poorly repaired, apparently with epoxi. Deglue Goo isn’t touching it.
How does one carefully remove chunks of cured epoxi? Is there a solvent that will do the job?
A search here yielded absolutely nothing.
Thanks in advance.
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Methylene chloride-based paint remover will cause epoxy to turn into a sort of rubbery solid, which you can then scrape off. Of course, it will wreak havoc with just about any finish, too, so you need to careful to avoid getting it on anything that you want to preserve.
-Steve
Thanks for the reply.
By "paint remover", do you mean stripper? I'll check what I have on hand for the chemical you mentioned.
Correct.
-Steve
It's hard to say without seeing it but , I would use wood instead of Epoxy if possible .
Therefore I would slice the epoxy off .
Repairing turnings is an art of it's own . I learned to splice a new piece on the part the dog chewed off , then re-turn the spindle to blend the new with the old .
We restored and repaired many pieces of value and I was taught not to use steel rod and epoxy and such . Rather try when possible to put it back to original with little or no visible signs of your repairs .
regards dusty
Dusty - 'taint my bad repair - just following someone else's ham handedness. That original split looks as though it would have glued up nicely with some care, and looks as though it will again, if I can get the epoxi chunks off without taking wood with it.....
I don't turn, so that option is out. Thanks anyways.
I haven't tried this myself, but in boat building, when resurfacing epoxied wood boat hulls, the advice is to be very careful with heat guns on epoxy covered wood as it can cause the epoxy to soften.
On your epoxied joint, try heat....
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