andrew, i have used a face cloth dipped in hot water then layed on the area for a few minutes. then i scraped the area with the flat side of a plastic knife, worked just fine with no damage to the blank and all the residue came right off.
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thanks for the replies guys, ya know the more i look at this motor it sure does look re-built. it's one of those long flat motors ( 4" long ) with wound up copper wire crimped to two leads of the plug. i bought a couple of the small round motors witch i see everyone use and i'm gonna stick with them, until i get an outlet near my bench i'll use a shorter ext. cord. i think the one i was usei
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just had a rather new (3 months old) rod dryer motor fail on me, i do not have an outlet near my rodbuilding bench so i use an extension cord to reach around the corner to an electric outlet. am i creating my own problem by useing an extension cord or could i just have had a bum dryer motor to begin with? i have bought a couple of relacement motors but just wondering if i should get rid of the ex
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10-4 cliff, will be doing some scraping tonite.
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thanks shawn and cliff, i was thinking along the lines of some sort of solvent. sounds like heat from hair dryer and some scraping is the way to go. there is not a lot of epoxy left on the blank just a thin layer, thanks again for the advice. leo
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i have stripped the guides off of a rod i'm reworking, and would like to know what i can use to remove the reisdue thats left on the blank from the epoxy. i heated the epoxy under the guides then used a razor blade to cut a slice in it then used my fingers to peel off the epoxy with the guides, what i have left is a thin layer of epoxy on the blank where the guides used to be. any info you guys c
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