This isn't for a work-related job, it's for the workshop at the back of my garage.
I'm going to be refinishing an antique table soon so I need to put some heat in my workshop. I don't want fan forced heat or anything else that actively moves air, because I don't want to stir up dust that will get stuck in tacky varnish.
I have a 4' baseboard heater but I don't want to put it on the floor because I'm always stacking sh!t there. Is there any reason I can't mount it like 4 or 5 feet up on the wall?
For the table, polyurethane. I know a cabinet/furniture maker guy and he suggested I try a wipe-on poly. Wipes on kind of like an oil, so no brush strokes. Light sand between coats with 220 grit or so, until the final coat, then it's like 600 grit sand. And then I'll experiment with polishing.
I went to the wood store place today and got various solvents and finishes and other goodies, so I'm going to experiment with some scraps I have. I'll give some pieces a stain, and then finish it with various methods. Different polyurethanes, shellac, and I'll give the French polish method a try but I hear that's a bitch :laughing:
Oh crap, 30 plus years in the trade an I have never wired a baseboard heater. I don't even know if I have ever seen one.
Why do you guys heat baseboards?
Is that something like heating hot water?
Take a hint from frathouses and glue your finishing projects to the ceiling. This kills two birds with one stone...it's warmer near the ceiling, so the heater will be more effective, and dust doesn't settle "up", so you'll have a perfect finish every time.
You have my permission to submit this suggestion to Fine Homebuilding.
Well I got a heater installed today. Just a 4-foot baseboard. Went in just fine, but getting the circuit from my panel to workshop was a bitch Took me half the day and I missed the 2nd half of the Colts/Chiefs game, which turned out to be a nailbiter
Anyway it's in there and it's cookin away, heats things up just fine. The old beat up thermostat I dug out of a cardboard box is FUBAR though, like 10 degrees out of whack :laughing: So I'm gonna get a cheap digital one and throw it in there.
Well I got a heater installed today. Just a 4-foot baseboard. Went in just fine, but getting the circuit from my panel to workshop was a bitch Took me half the day and I missed the 2nd half of the Colts/Chiefs game, which turned out to be a nailbiter
What is the flash-point of your finishing materials. Do the instructions mention anything about a well ventilated area? Also what is the surface temperature of the heating elements?
Maybe I need re-educated about poly. Can you repair poly after it is fully cured? Last time I checked poly doesnt repair well due to a purely mechanical bond. Shellac cuts back into itself and repairs really well.
Just mount the midgets up high, and put the BB heater below
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