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John May 9, 08 - 12:21 PM	Hot knives anybody? Does anybody know where I could find some hot knives? CRL has discontinued, as has Reid. Everybody I have checked has sold their old inventory. Any ideas?
xs May 9th, 2008 - 1:04 PM	Re: Hot knives anybody? Who was your partner Barney Rubble???You wouldn't be Fred Flintstone would it????...lol.....Anyway one of our guyz has a set and some blades..I know he really doesn't use them anymore,I can ask him if her wants to sell them....His tool box is full of ancient things..he's got a Vibra knife in the bottom draw still.....lol..............
John May 9th, 2008 - 1:45 PM	Re: Hot knives anybody? I had a guy that wants a few for residential work and I told him I'd see what I could find. If he's wanting to sell it I can pass the info along!
GLASSSGOD May 9th, 2008 - 5:56 PM	Re: Hot knives anybody? I guess I am not old enough to know...what the heck is a hot knife? I had a Hot Pocket for lunch
xs May 9th, 2008 - 6:39 PM	Re: Hot knives anybody? Pretend it's a hotcomb with a cutout blade at the end..........................lol....................
John May 12th, 2008 - 9:50 AM	Re: Hot knives anybody? It's why they specify "cold" when they say "cold knife". Think of a cold knife blade on the end of a soldering iron. It was made for cutting butyl.
Opus May 12th, 2008 - 10:37 AM	Re: Hot knives anybody? Boy, that brings back a few memories. Had a 'hot knife" in my old shop. We tried it on urethane since butyl never presented a removal problem. Those were the days of Escorts that had micron thickness of uri and pre-Wizard cable knife blades. Not an easy removal at times. (hot knife was NOT the answer, short sharp cold knife blades were) Speaking of butyl install systems, anyone try, buy and use the European butyl system that had wire impregnated in it and one hooked up a battery to both heat it for install and removal?? (can't think of the name) I bought one because my installers had heard about it and we were doing the local MBZ dealer and the FW427 were installed using the same system.
vt.glass shop May 12th, 2008 - 3:08 PM	Re: Hot knives anybody? OPUS, Fiat 124 and the 128.AAhh yes,i remember them well. We used to use a battery charger to get the glass out.Took like 2-4 hrs for the urethane to heat up,and both w/s and moulding would come out as one unit.Got burned more than once also,man those chrome mouldings would get hot. As for the hot knife,fumes galore.And very awkward to use.

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