Spent a weekend at the Preservation Trades Network conference a couple of weeks
ago. The go-to tools of the professionals is now the steam box, as previously
mentioned, and infrared heaters, specifically these: https://eco-
strip.com/">https://eco-strip.com/


As Bruce says, you can't linger too long or bad things will happen. Of course,
that also means that you don't spend forever trying to heat a sash.


-Tom
<https://eco-strip.com/>

(Who keeps missing the Brown's show and sale, but that's apparently moot if Seo
bought the place out.)

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From: OldTools  on behalf of Bruce Zenge

Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2018 11:25 PM
To: hiscarpentry@g...
Cc: Galoots
Subject: Re: [OldTools] Soften glazing

OK, I've been watching this for a while and guess I.ll throw this out.  In
a previous lifetime, my family business did window replacement as part of
the overall operation.  We had a putty heater for removing putty that I
still have.  It was a commercial product that is still available, I think.
I still have the last one we had and am willing to sell it to someone if
there is an interest.  I'm too old to replace glass anymore, so should just
go ahead with divestiture.
The way they work is they have an electric heating element with ceramic
surrounding it that directs the heat to the putty.  If you linger too long,
it can crack the glass, but used with care, glass can be removed without
damage.  I'm not really doing a selling job to anyone, just passing on
information.  If we happened to be on site where electricity wasn't handy,
we would frequently use propane torches with the smallest outlet available,
but that was usually when the glass was already broken and it didn't
matter.  We did have one guy that had done enough of this work that he
could use the torch and rarely break a glass.  Any way, just agreeing with
others that there is more than one way to do this and I have a way that
hadn't been mentioned.
Bruce
Des Moines, IA

On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 3:36 PM Nathan Goodwin 
wrote:

> Is there a way to soften old window glaze to remove it? I am not sure what
> the glazing is made of, but I'm thinking it's oil based.
>
>
>
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