Several years ago, the finish went on my Ashford Joy spinning wheel. It has been
sticky ever since and not attractive to spin with it! It was a huge dust bunny and not in a good way!
I worked for 5 hours but I got it all apart, all sanded to remove the old polyurethane finish and then waxed all the cleaned parts and then put it all back together!! ( I took each part and put it in a baggie labeled well so there would be no question of what went where! ) It looks so much better and my socks don't stick to the pedals anymore!
( I will share with you my consternation when I was about halfway to having it back together and I saw the poly drive band sitting. over. there. and not on the wheel; which should have happened as step one. Nothing to do but take it all back apart and start again. I was much quicker on the second assembly! lol)
It turned out great! It's beautiful again! Nice to have that albatross conquered, eh?!
ReplyDeleteI had planned something similar to my very old and tatty louet at some stage - but somehow there's always some spinning on it! but at least it's not sticky - it would just need a bit of tlc. maybe I'll manage during the summer? at least I'd have a better chance of getting the new varnish dry:) or not - if the coming summer is similar to the last two....
ReplyDeleteLooks good. Is there anything you won't do?
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