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To: E who wrote (59538)	3/26/2001 7:02:32 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

OH I SEE!!!!! You are so right!!! It's when you have to buy things and think and plan, and even take responsibility for the outcome, that you have to do them right. You are doing one of those- "Oh look! - here's some paint, I'll just throw it on this table as I walk by" non-projects. If it fails, then it's ok. You never meant to accomplish anything anyway. I am looking on line-- they use ammonia and detergent to remove wax from floors. You may not want to mention to the person who lives in your house that NO ONE seems to have done anything remotely like PUTTING WAX ON A PAINTED WOODEN TABLE. I have now learned how to remove candle wax from a tablecloth, ear wax from ears, and wax from fender flares, a problem I have often pondered while lying in bed at night.

To: E who wrote (59538)	3/27/2001 1:36:43 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Unfortunately ammonia will not do diddly to wax. Wax requires stern treatment - no mercy, no prisoners, no Martha Stewart boolsheet. I recommend that gel paint stripper. If you open a bottle of paint stripper and then sort of accidentally nudge it with your elbow, spilling it onto the table (which by some uncommon foresight has been cleared of papers and any Styrofoam) then it would not be a Home Project but rather a more ordinary and morally palatable Emergency Cleaning Situation. At the end of taht, your table should be ready for some sort of subconsciously Ouija'd contact with fine-grit sandpaper... Paint will not adhere to a table that has any residue of wax. Absent powerful mechanical methods (sand and AC power, something about which we Shaky Coasters remember fondly) modern chemistry must be deployed in all its awesome fury. There is always fire...

To: E who wrote (59538)	3/27/2001 3:03:58 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

It depends on the wax. Good quality is carnauba and poor quality is hydrocarbon. The best is to use a good quality expensive paint remover -- it will raise the paint and the wax w/o raising the grain. Get a scraper w/o sharp edge and remove the mess (use rubber or plastic gloves). Do not wash the table with water unless the paint remover requires it (it will say on the can)-- that will raise the grain. Then you will have to sand off the grain (use a perfectly flat sanding block -- usually hard rubber). This table better be a damned fine piece of wood to be worth the trouble. Post a picture before and after. The best is to cover the table with a turkish or azerbajani carpet. Preferably an antique. Usually cheaper than refinishing. Should run $2800-3000 for a small table.