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Originally Posted by Diggin Jiggin

Eddie, I am re-wrapping my 1145, stripping it wasn't that bad.

If you warm up the epoxy with a heat gun it will get soft. Don't heat it too long or too hot. You are not melting it just warming it which makes it soft..

To take off the guides, Warm up the foot of 1 guide and then take a razor blade and with the guide facing up, lay the blade flat on the guide about 1/2 way up the foot and push it up towards the ring. You are kind of planing thru the epoxy and using the guide as a backstop so you don't cut the blank.

Once you do this part you should be able to pick a thread and unwind the guide wrap. if the epoxy is warm/soft enough the thread will cut thru it as you unwind it.

For the underwraps I heated one end and once it was warm I just used something plastic to pick off enough epoxy to expose some thread. Then lay the razor blade on the blank and using a corner of it just pick under the part you got the epoxy off to cut the end of the underwrap. Once you have a thread end exposed just warm as you go and pulling the thread will cut it all off as you unwind it.

When I had it all off, I ended up cleaning the blank with acetone on a cloth to to get the epoxy that had penetrated under the thread off the blank.