I thought I would share this post on a blog I follow by reserected pipes. In it he comments on using a grinding tip on his Dremel to remove a heavy finish on the old KW spiral. He did a great job on it and I want to direct you to have a look at his work. Thanks.
I found this Kaywoodie on eBay a couple of months ago and have been trying to decide what to do with it. It showed OK in the pictures and when I received it it had showed promise.
You can see by the shape of it, the thread style, that it had several different layers of finish on it. The cake in the bowl was irregular but not too bad. The rim is tarred and looked like it had been scraped.
The first thing I did was to remove the cake and use salt and alcohol to clean it. The rim needed a lot of attention so I sanded it on a table top with 320 grit sand paper.
Next, I took the bowl and soaked it in an alcohol bath to loosen the finish.
Once it came out of the bath I had to use various means to get the…
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