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removing flooring mastic

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Subject: removing flooring mastic
From: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 15:38:36 -0400
I'm trying to remove some mastic that was used to adhere vinyl tiles to 
fir flooring strips. I've removed it in the past using a drum sander 
but these are small pieces so a chemical solvent would be ideal. I 
tried laquer thinner and brush cleaner (contains alcohols, esters, 
glycol ether, ketones, less than 1% of: methylene chloride, methanol, 
N-Methylpyrolidone, petroleum distillates).

Both seem to leach the black out of the mastic but don't make much of a 
dent otherwise. Is there something else that might work? The mastic is 
at least 25 years old judging by the tile pattern, and does not contain 
asbestos.

thanks,
jim






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