Thread: recycle timber

Lew,

I know you asked about a machine to remove the paint but may I suggest you consider Peelaway - a paint remover with varying types and with some specifically for lead paint removal. The product is not 'magic in a bucket' - you will still have to do a bit of work.

I have just finished removing paint from red pine - used Peelaway #6 and #9. Didn't affect the colour.

Anyway check this out if you like; www.peelaway.com.au

Cheers

Brian@ Burra

I would use a planer thicknesser, take 2 mm max off each edge, because with any mechanical removing you are going to loose some timber thickness. Connected to a good efficient DC or a cyclone and that takes care of the 'lead' paint problem as well.
If you don't own or don't want to buy the equipment, find a woody near you who has the machines, give him a slab of beer or whatever and get a good job done.

Cya
Joe

Hey Lew,

Having stripped tooooo many board metres over the years, I would consider getting a hold (I own one) of Metabo's paint stripper tool.

It is a power tool that user small TC cutters to remove paint. It costs over $600 to buy, but you can probably hire one from the local hire company in your area.

Obviously you will need protetor gear, cause it showers stuff all over the show. If you are careful you can cut the paint down to the timber surface & then put it thru the planner, It would be kinder on your planer blades to do it this way, as the TC blades on the stripper will take a fair bit of grief.

Good luck,

Ray

Anyone who put painted timber across my buzzer or through my thicknesser would not only be paying through the nose for sharpening / replacement of blades but they would also have to have said proboscis attended to by a suitable physician because I would belt the moronic prick with an unpainted length of 4"x2" as hard as I possibly could. :mad:

There is nothing as good as a Sandvic (Bahco) 2" scraper for removing paint, without using chemicals.
If you suspect the paint has lead in it, wear a mask and dispose of the scrapings sensibly.

WNS,

Now tell us how you really feel about it.

Have you no respect for woodworking? :eek:

Why would you want to waste a decent work piece like that?

Even a decent sized off cut, big enough to swing, would be a waste.

Get him where it hurts and never let him use your equipment again. Better yet never talk aoubt ww with him again.
No Doctor, No Police, No Hospital, No Courts. No Solicitors.
And you probably get to keep a friend as well.

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Got my first load of recycled Merbau from a demolition yard.

Luckily it came from railing around a deck and only hade a few bolts thru the ends.

Wifes - friends - husband built his own 35 square home using one of those multi-function setups ( used - $4000 ).
His dad was retired from the building trade and knew what to buy.

Anyway, I asked them to help (mainly cause at that stage I had no idea what to do) and both were happy to help.
Jointed all 4 sides of heaps and heaps of painted timber.
Untill paint and weathered outer layer were gone.

Had to give up after a year of reminding them that I owed them big time for their help. They just wouldn't hear of it.

Now I count the son as a close family friend and we all get together once an month for a kid screaming lunch.
And have all the respect in the world for the dad.

Both always seem to be excited about catchin up to tell stories about our latest woodworking adventures.

Both are the kind of blokes I wanna be when I grow up.

Just wanted to share a positive ...

hth

WNS

I have a Swiss made planer thicknesser which use either resharpenable blades or disposable blades. For doing that job I'll use the disposable at my slowest feed rate.
I have done that before and there is absolutely no damage to the planer thicknesser. Perhaps it is the quality of the machine and blades and the speed of feed that is just right. Obviously the disposable blades were disposed of after the job as the manufacturer intended.
Been around woodworking machines and tools for over 50 years and I still have most of the tools that I bought way back when I started, and need I say that they are still in a perfect condition.
Fortunately we are individuals and have choices in life.......u do it your way.......although you still havn't given us an answer to the problem, besides the childish outburst.
Come on, answer the question posted by S601C.


Cya
Joe

I recycle quite a bit of timber and the painted stuff has the paint cut off with the table saw, if you have a halfway decent saw fitted with a decent tungsten tipped blade, properly set up, then it is not a problem to remove just the paint and a 'tinch' of timber to give you a nice clean, square piece of timber to slip harmlessly through your thicknesser, Swiss, Taiwanese or Italian. Why anyone in their right mind would stuff up their thicknesser blades, even if they were disposable, is beyond me. The nasty lead paint goes down the tube into the dust extraction system where it is collected so that it can be mailed anonymously to Labor politicians and other undesirables.
Joe, the only reason someone of your advanced years would have tools in perfect condition after a lifetime of "use" is probably because you don't use the bloody things.

I machined 10 lengths of 8 x 2 painted oregon for a work colleague a few months back. Ran it through my Dewalt thicknesser and then squared up the edges on the table saw. They came up very nicely. With a decent DC lead based paint or not it's not going to be an issue.

It was real tough on the blades in the thicknesser though - they started out blunt anyway, so I touched them up myself half way through then had them sharpened properly afterwards.

The oregon is now his kitchen benchtops - looks great apparently, haven't seen the finished job yet.

I definitely wouldn't be removing lead based paint with an angle grinder or sander - unless of course you'd like a few points knocked off your IQ

WNS

LMAO!!

Is WMS the new Stoppers............

He is not the Stopper but the lad certainly has potential!!

Are we correct to assume the following

WNS = What Neil Said = Christopha - TOTAL OF BOTH = Stoppers
:confused:

nope