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varnishing screen doors (was Re: AA Battery Hack)

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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> writes:
> I covered an outdoor table with newspaper, took the door off its
> hinges, and laid it flat to apply the varnish. But I needed to lift it
> off the news paper so that the varnish won't glue it to the newspaper.
> Looking around I found a pulp fiber drink tray in the recycling. You
> know the ones, probably, brown paper in a 3-d molded shape to hold four
> coffee cups:
>
> https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61wdlVUB1YL._AC_SL1500_.jpg
>
> I cut it up into four individual cup holders and put it in the corners
> of the screen. They worked like springy feet to hold up the door and I
> varnished away with no newspaper sticking to the door problems.

How did you keep the varnish from gluing the door to the four individual
cup holders?  Did you only varnish the side of the door that was on top?

Here's some foolish Monday-morning quarterbacking:

I guess making your feet springy ameliorates the wobble problem that a
three-legged stool solves with exact constraint.  Having only three feet
under the door would mean that downward pressure outside the triangle of
feet could tip the door up, but I don’t know if that would be a problem
when varnishing it.

I suppose the extreme version of marine spar varnish would be to use
fiberglass-laminating epoxy, and maybe fiberglass sheets too.  But maybe
you live in a place where firefighters being able to break down your
door improves your survival prospects more than burglars being able to
break down your door harms them...

Kragen

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          varnishing screen doors (was Re: AA Battery Hack) Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen@canonical.org> - 2026-08-30 12:33 -0300
            Re: varnishing screen doors (was Re: AA Battery Hack) Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2026-08-30 22:01 +0000

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