I'm a retard...
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Travis Bickle
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Thanks!
Wait until you guys see the custom set of AK furniture my brother is making for me.
Fresh Birch I'm going to stain in BLO.
It's going to be epic!!
Looking forward to seeing it.Thanks!
Wait until you guys see the custom set of AK furniture my brother is making for me.
Fresh Birch I'm going to stain in BLO.
It's going to be epic!!
One of these days I'll start making my new CZ858 furniture. So many things on the list ahead of it though.
update: THE COSMO NEVER STOPS !!!!
so I've had the time to refinish the stock I wrecked the shellac on over the holidays. Only took about 20min to strip all the shellac off.....and I'm well into day 4 sweating out the cosmoline. about 6 hours a day over a baseboard heater and this sh*t shows no signs of stopping. I know I've got enough heat cause every 15min I have to wipe off a new glistening coat of cosmo...but I see no end in sight..jesus, it's like taking care of a baby again lol. I shudder to think how much this is costing in hydro.
When can I say enough is enough and get to sanding ? Has anyone ever got to the point that the cosmo stops coming out ?
so I've had the time to refinish the stock I wrecked the shellac on over the holidays. Only took about 20min to strip all the shellac off.....and I'm well into day 4 sweating out the cosmoline. about 6 hours a day over a baseboard heater and this sh*t shows no signs of stopping. I know I've got enough heat cause every 15min I have to wipe off a new glistening coat of cosmo...but I see no end in sight..jesus, it's like taking care of a baby again lol. I shudder to think how much this is costing in hydro.
When can I say enough is enough and get to sanding ? Has anyone ever got to the point that the cosmo stops coming out ?
You stripped the stock before cleaning all the cosmo out of it?
Oh yeah...just an fyi...when you 'sweat it out', you're also sweating it in.
If you get stripping compound into the inletting with cosmo still present, it may have made the job even harder
yep..I stripped it first.
not totally sure what you mean sweating it in...it's already there...whatever comes to the surface is being wiped away. I don't see how I can be adding cosmo ?
The furniture stripper was on the stock maybe 5min, and it had to eat shellac before it could get into the wood, I'm pretty sure it was wiped away before it could have possibly soaked in. I did rub the crap out of it with mineral spirits before sweating out the cosmo, maybe that was a bad idea ?
anyway, thanks for the help !
not totally sure what you mean sweating it in...it's already there...whatever comes to the surface is being wiped away. I don't see how I can be adding cosmo ?
The furniture stripper was on the stock maybe 5min, and it had to eat shellac before it could get into the wood, I'm pretty sure it was wiped away before it could have possibly soaked in. I did rub the crap out of it with mineral spirits before sweating out the cosmo, maybe that was a bad idea ?
anyway, thanks for the help !
Re: "sweating it in"
The wood has cosmo laying on it from the inital greasing process.
The end user thinks it's a good idea to 'sweat the cosmo out', so they expose the inletting to heat with the grain of the wood unsealed and wide open - like a sponge. As the wood is heated, the grain opens up and allows the cosmo to flow into it because cosmo is runnier/less viscous when it's hot. At some point, after enough cycles, 'cosmo removal' done this way will reach diminishing returns and the wood will have been impregnated (sweated in) with cosmoline. Very difficult to get it out now.
That's why the best method of cleaning cosmoline off of wood is with a mild cutting solution (all I've ever used is glass cleaner). This can be done in an hour or less of thorough cleaning with strips of old towel saturated in solution and discarded once they start depositing instead of removing the cosmo. The solution will flush the cosmo out of the open fibers of the wood leaving the inletting grease-free and ready for a light coat of oil after being allowed to dry for a day or so. Then there's no need to sweat anything out because there's none left to sweat.
The wood has cosmo laying on it from the inital greasing process.
The end user thinks it's a good idea to 'sweat the cosmo out', so they expose the inletting to heat with the grain of the wood unsealed and wide open - like a sponge. As the wood is heated, the grain opens up and allows the cosmo to flow into it because cosmo is runnier/less viscous when it's hot. At some point, after enough cycles, 'cosmo removal' done this way will reach diminishing returns and the wood will have been impregnated (sweated in) with cosmoline. Very difficult to get it out now.
That's why the best method of cleaning cosmoline off of wood is with a mild cutting solution (all I've ever used is glass cleaner). This can be done in an hour or less of thorough cleaning with strips of old towel saturated in solution and discarded once they start depositing instead of removing the cosmo. The solution will flush the cosmo out of the open fibers of the wood leaving the inletting grease-free and ready for a light coat of oil after being allowed to dry for a day or so. Then there's no need to sweat anything out because there's none left to sweat.
hmm...ok, guess I'm screwed lol ...been sweating it in for 4 days now !
I'm done...gonna let it cool down..clean it with mineral spirits and do a little light sanding and finish it...guess I'll get what I get at this point...too late to go back now. oh well.
ok, will do. thanks Bowyer.
edit: does it have to have ammonia ? just checked and all we've got is "SprayAway - No Ammonia" glass cleaner
I didnt read all the posts on this thread but can say you did youreself a favour by bubbling the finish of the sks.
Ive refinished both of mine with the poly tung oil without the fanfare of glass cleaner or anything else... the stripper dried and cleaned up the wood better than anything ever could. They both came out beautiful and yours will to.
Ive refinished both of mine with the poly tung oil without the fanfare of glass cleaner or anything else... the stripper dried and cleaned up the wood better than anything ever could. They both came out beautiful and yours will to.
