Tag: metalworking

News – January 22nd, 2019 – Woodworkers Journal Interview, SawStop Articles, and Video Progress

Trent Davis

Woodworker’s Journal Interview

http://www.woodworkersjournal.com/trent-davis/

I was recently interviewed for Woodworkers Journal’s Today’s Woodworker feature. The article can be viewed at the link above.

If you’ve ever been curious as to how I got started doing what I do, it might prove to be an interesting read.

Choosing a SawStop Article

https://www.trentdavis.net/wp/2019/01/18/choosing-a-sawstop-contractor-vs-professional/

I have finally completed the first article in my Choosing a SawStop series of articles. This one covers the differences between the SawStop Contractor Saw and the Professional Saw.

My next article will cover the differences between the Professional Saw and the Industrial Saw.

After that I will cover the differences between the JobSite Saw and the Contractor Saw.

YouTube Video Progress

I’ve been working on another YouTube video where I show how I’m building a cart out of angle-iron for holding a bunch of cracked cymbals.

Since the angle-iron I’m using is powder-coated, I want to remove all that so I have some good clean metal to work with.

The photo to the right shows the effects of Rust-Oleum Aircraft Remover after sitting on the powder-coating for about 15 minutes. As you can see, the powder-coating is basically dissolving, allowing it to be scraped off easily.

News – July 23rd, 2018 – Stripping off Powder-Coating

Trent Davis

One of the perks of working where I do is the metal dumpster.  I try to regularly swing by and see what we are throwing out each week and lately I have found a lot of the heavy-duty angle-iron we use for fence rails.  They have holes drilled in them and have a powder-coating which isn’t a big deal to me.

I’m starting a new project which is going to be a somewhat industrial looking coffee table.  If this works out well, I’ll make a few other matching tables to go with it.  I’m going to use this angle-iron to build the body of it and the top will be walnut planking.  The first thing I need to do is trip off the powder-coating.

There are several ways to remove powder-coating but I decided to try a chemical remover this time.  Specifically, I used Rust-oleum Aircraft Remover.  This is some pretty potent stuff.

After about 10 minutes it started to dissolve the powder-coating so I could scrape it off.

It didn’t remove all of it so I had to take a wire wheel to it but I eventually got it all cleaned off.

I’ll be posting an article detailing the entire process.  Maybe I’ll even do a how-to video.