[Ron Ramirez]

Friday, October 22.

Not such a good day today in terms of cabinet progress...

Realizing that good weather was winding down, and after hearing the forecast call for a slight chance of rain Saturday, I decided to mask off the 44B cabinet trim to be toned Extra Dark Walnut.

First. I reattached the bottom trim to the left and right sides. The trim pieces still had some of the old veneer glued to them; in order to get the veneer off, I literally had to whittle some of it off. Once this was done, the trim pieces were reattached to the cabinet.

Using painter's masking tape and some newspaper, I carefully masked off the cabinet so only the trim was showing, as shown below:

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...44_024.jpg]

Three coats of Extra Dark Walnut later, the trim was all a uniform dark color.

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...44_025.jpg]

So far, so good.

Or so I thought.

After letting the cabinet dry for awhile, I removed the tape and newspaper.

I was shocked to find that the tape had left a lot of residue behind!

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...44_026.jpg]

[Image: http://www.philcoradio.com/images/phorum...44_027.jpg]

What appears to be heavy scratchiness and scuffs in the photos above is actually tape residue.

The day was ruined. I was afraid the cabinet was ruined as well. In disgust, I quit working on it for the day.

That evening, I did some internet research on how to remove tape adhesive from lacquer finishes. The one product that was mentioned most often was naptha.

I resolved to find some naptha the next day and try it.