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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from acidbuilder.com and I want to show you how to use a belt sander
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to take the finish off of a piece of furniture or a piece of wood. The problem that I have right now
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is that it's about 47 degrees outside. We were thinking about using a chemical stripper to do
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the job, but guess what? The instructions on the chemical stripper say temperature should be between
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60 and 80 degrees. Well, I got to get the job done. So we're going to treat this the same way
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that you might treat refinishing a hardwood floor. When you think about it, all that a contractor does
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that sands hardwood floors, he just uses that machine and he just uses different grits of
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sandpaper. Let's get started. Right now, I've got some 60 grit sandpaper in the belt sander and
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it's pretty rough and it's going to do a really good job of making the initial cut through the
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finish. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. You know what? Before we get started, there's a really important tip
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And if you don't know this, you'll probably ruin, you know, the piece of furniture. Here's what you
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have to know. You don't just put the sanding machine down there and hold it in position
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Not only do I have to run the sander back and forth slowly, but I need to basically kind of go in a circle
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And doing that ensures that you don't cut a line or cut a pattern into the piece of furniture
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Let's go ahead and do it right now. Rightelle Rightelle Well you can see that it does a great job
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It's made a great cut of that initial finish. Look at that
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so you know of course here's where you know the finish hasn't been touched yet and we're down to
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bare wood right here and that was only after about 10 or 12 seconds so what we've got to do now to
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finish the job is just basically do the entire top do everything with the first pass with that 60 grit
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paper and then start switching out with different sandpapers 80 grit 120 grit you know finer and
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finer and finer until this tabletop is as smooth as a piece of glass. That's how you can take a
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finish off of a piece of furniture. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com. I hope you discovered
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