Surface Preparation with Linbide Scraper - Doors

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Painting Tools to Buy. Tool Review for Painters.

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The presenter demonstrates the Linbide Scraper on white primed doors as part of a 1950s duplex renovation. He uses the scraper to quickly and effectively remove paint runs, burrs, and built-up paint from the door surfaces. He highlights that this method is much faster than sanding for the initial removal of imperfections. He also demonstrates how to reverse the 5mm carbide blade using a flat-head screwdriver, noting that the metal construction of the scraper is extremely durable and can withstand being run over by a truck without damage.

Goal: Efficiently remove paint runs and imperfections from painted doors.

Tools and materials

Flat-head Screwdriver — Reversing the carbide blade
Linbide Scraper Linbide — Scraping paint runs, burrs, and paint build-up from doors
Painted Doors — The surface being prepared

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about the linbide scraper this is a tool i've been using for years um kind of like the 5 1 tool you have to have one one of these things in your side pocket or tool bag as a painter or do-it-yourselfer there's so many things you can use this for i'm going to run around we're doing a renovation of a 1950s duplex here and i've been using it every single day scraping paint runs scraping burrs scraping putty epoxies all kinds of different things scraping floors walls ceilings with it so let's take off we're going to show you how useful this little tool is it's got a five millimeter reversible carbide blade on it it's a metal constructed device this thing literally you can run this thing over with your truck and it's not going to bend it it's not going to break it damage it it will last you literally forever it's a one-time purchase the blades are reversible it's a carbide blade that will last an extremely long time but if you do hit nails and stuff with it you could ship the blade but it's extremely sharp great for scraping out paint runs so let's take off i'm going to show you some of the places we're using this thing all right so we're doing you know this 1950s renovation these were all uh stained grade doors we're priming them um a couple of them have been painted but there's all kinds of little um boogers and things on them you can get out the sander and sand that off it's going to take a lot longer to sand it versus just scraping it you can see when there it just scraped off a bunch of loose paint right there but that's actually primer you can see right there scrape these little burns off so it's going to scrape this stuff off a lot faster than it will take to sand it so it does have a reversible blade right here just a flathead screwdriver and i can reverse this blade and have a sharp blade again so if you need to flip your blade over this blade we've been i've been using it for quite some time here weeks i've hit a few nails and things in walls here and there so it's blade needs to be flipped over reversed oh there's a magnet like stuck down there this isn't going so well [Music] it's a good thing we have matt to edit this [Music] it shows you how often we flip the blades over rare so i'm just scraping down the edge of these doors or the paints built up you can see i just flipped over my blade been using the other blade for so long it's literally been months since i've switched it now i switched it over it's just like razor sharp on this other side see…

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