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Vintage Electric Paint Stripping Tool
Re: Vintage Electric Paint Stripping Tool
I wonder how well it works.
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I guess it would probably work about as well as a heat gun though I bet the small plate would get instantly gummy with paint ? Perhaps older paints performed better with regards to this ?
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Willa, was just thinking that same thought. I know my paint scrapers get sticky when they get hot and paint just builds up and stick to the scraper.
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While it looks in pretty good conditon for its age (1920'-50's guessing by the cloth wrapped cord) there are no traces of paint anywhere on the tool or cord, vs my heat gun which has built-up gunk, smears, etc.
This may have been a new fangled thing that didn't work as well in practice as it did in theory ?
This may have been a new fangled thing that didn't work as well in practice as it did in theory ?
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interesting but yea. the painting would all stick to it and be burning and stinking.
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A good nostalgia gift for someone who's been through stripping hell.
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maybe it isn't for stripping paint. If it were then why would the blade be set so low? could it be for ,,, I dont' know,, removing bark or something?
Of course if you look in the magazines and things of the 30's- 70's there were a lot of mail order goodies with flowery adds , depicting things that didn't really work. X ray glasses is probably the most common but there were many other gimmicks.
i remember one where evidently it said "Guaranteed to kill flies". then you got two little blocks of wood with a red dot on them and the instructions said put the fly between the red dots and squeeze
Of course if you look in the magazines and things of the 30's- 70's there were a lot of mail order goodies with flowery adds , depicting things that didn't really work. X ray glasses is probably the most common but there were many other gimmicks.
i remember one where evidently it said "Guaranteed to kill flies". then you got two little blocks of wood with a red dot on them and the instructions said put the fly between the red dots and squeeze
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phil wrote:maybe it isn't for stripping paint.
Hair straightener?
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Manalto wrote:phil wrote:maybe it isn't for stripping paint.
Hair straightener?
Hair singer?