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Pink Floyd Day 16 (FUN WITH STRIPPER)

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OK, get your mind out of the gutter, I meant paint stripper and not real strippers 🙂 I took today to work with chemical stripper to get some of the hard to reach areas ahead of another day of soda blasting.

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Pink Floyd Day 14

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Made some more progress media blasting today.

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Pink Floyd Day 13

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Day 13 started the Media Blasting with baking soda. It is quite messy but very cool!

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