Here's something I came up with to help people with nicked squeegees. Please let me know if I've made any factual errors, or if the picture doesn't appear well on your monitor. (I saved it as .gif on a Mac).
As far as I know, this trick only works with 3M Gold squeegees. (I've seen other gold sqeegees that are only gold in color, not in quality). I hope a few people find this helpful.
[ January 26, 2009, 09:03 PM: Message edited by: Barb. Shortreed ]
Posted by Michael Berry (Member # 2604) on :
Sandpaper (fine) works great on all colors & brands. But thats a good tip too! Thanks!!
Posted by Bob Stephens (Member # 858) on :
I've been doing it this way for quite some time now. And this doesnt only work with 3M. I only use the hard white el cheapo brand. Alway slicker than frogs hair.
Posted by Stevo Chartrand (Member # 2094) on :
Yup that's how I've always done it. Good tip!
Stevo
Posted by Jim Horton (Member # 4271) on :
Thanks, thats a big help. But my gold (colored) 3m sqeegee only has two humps. Did I get a newer model or did I not get what I ordered?
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
I have used cardboard to stroup my squeeges to finish edge, just like honing a knife blade, it works real well. Sanding always produced little plastic nits on edge and that's not acceptable. My two cents....
Posted by ScooterX (Member # 2023) on :
Jim, I have one that has two humps and one with four (gee, this sounds like a camel/dromedary thing). It doesn't matter - its not the groove between the hump, it the crux where the hump meets the flat. even if you only had ONE hump it would work. or halfahump...
Frank, this is different than stropping (a back-and-forth action perpendicular to the blade used to remove a "wire edge" from sharp blades). Something about the forward-back removes a bit of material but also smoothes down the whole edge. Both probably work, but I don't want to confuse people and have them try to strop using two squeegees.
Posted by ScooterX (Member # 2023) on :
Oh, and I didn't want anybody to think I had "invented" this method. I was just trying to illustrate it for people who have heard about it, but didn't quite get the "how". Somebody at a meet showed me (maybe Al Checca from Latrobe, PA?), so I'm just passing it along.
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