to cure this condition by wiping very slowly, with a cloth saturated with acetone or methyl alcohol along
with a bit of linseed oil or Tung oil. Wipe very gently following the wood grain. Do not wipe the wood
surface, let the surface dry naturally, and when its dry wipe it with a soapy cloth followed by a cloth
dampened in clear water. Rub dry before flowing on a thin coat a varnish. Refinish the wood if this
doesn't remove the alligatoring. Stripping and refinishing is the only answer.
STRIPPING WOOD
Sometimes, when everything else fails you will be faced with the job of stripping and refinishing. The
piece that you want to strip, take outdoors, or if you want to work inside, opened all the windows, doors,
in your workroom. Next, spread a drop cloth or a thick layer of old newspapers on the floor, and get
ready for two or three days of work.
When you get ready to strip a piece, try to arrange your works set up so that you can turn the piece
you're working on so to be able to apply the remover to horizontal surfaces. When you start to strip you
should finish using the remover on one surface before turning the piece and starting with another.
Always protect the already striped surfaces with a few sheets of newspaper held in place with masking
tape, if you don't and the remover trickles or splashes onto their wood it can call is additional stains.
More than likely you will have to do the legs of chairs and tables with the work in a vertical position. If the
legs have rounds or turned areas on them, work on the first. Always use paper held with masking tape to
protect the areas below where you're working from any trickles. Use one of the sponge-rubber
spreaders to spread and even coat of remover on the surface. Now let it stand for a while. Don't try to
scrape as soon as your finish spreading the remover on. Most removers need at least ten minutes to
penetrate and lift the old finish and others may need at two or three times that long. You can watch the
spread surface, and if you see spots beginning to dry out, then apply a bit of fresh remover over the use.
After the old finish begins to break up and swell, bubbling up like mud in a swamp, start scraping with
your wooden paddle.
Treat it like you would pay small shovel, and make long passes over the surface to let off the sludge the
remover has formed. You need to have an empty container handy in which to drop the goo mess that
you pick the. Tap the paddle on its edge of the container to get it to drop off, and then wipe the scraper
clean before beginning a fresh tasks. Strip the surface that you have covered with remover, then go
back to the first surface you worked on an apply more remover to spots that didn't come clean when you
scrape them the first time. Always keep in mind to keep the remover off bare wood to avoid stains. After
applying the remover a second time the finish will give way in a few minutes. Do this with each surface.
You will find there will be areas where the old finish has penetrated the wood so deeply that the remover
won't let it.
If after applying to applications of remover and you find that it won't clean these areas, you can assume
that anymore won't do it either.
On the spots they will have to be scraped, the before you scrape, make sure and washed all the area