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crosley 516 cabinet restoration
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Jimmie-
As a fellow arthritis sufferer (RA, 100% disablility), I offer this to get your hands dirty again.

Lay some 3-4 paper towels on your radio; saturate these with denatured alcohol and cover this with a plastic bag. Wait 5 minutes. Wipe the finish off. It will be stripped nicely down to the wood with almost no effort. If you want to speed up the process, add or use acetone. A cut-down glue brush will get into the crevaces.

Even loaded up on painkillers, deadly injections, and handfuls of drugs every day, I still manage to get an hour a day into radio work. If you have RA, DMSO will get hands working again for a few hours a day- enough to make radio work fun again. Keep me informed on your progress.

Pete AI2V


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crosley 516 cabinet restoration - by Guest - 05-19-2006, 05:02 PM
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