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Title: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: leapinlew on March 02, 2008, 12:06:04 am
I'm having some issues removing the orange t-molding from a pacman cab. It's just about disintegrating into small chips and leaving the tail of the T-molding in the slots. Anyone have any suggestions?

Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: TheShanMan on March 02, 2008, 12:24:24 am
Needle nose pliers?
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: spacies on March 02, 2008, 12:27:19 am
Maybe a bit of heat?
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: leapinlew on March 02, 2008, 12:33:50 am
Maybe a bit of heat?

Pliers aren't working - it's breaking off in 1/4" pieces.

I was wondering if some heat would make it more pliable, or hold together. I'll try to take a hair dryer to it. Thanks for the tip.
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: RandyT on March 02, 2008, 12:52:41 am
I was wondering if some heat would make it more pliable, or hold together. I'll try to take a hair dryer to it. Thanks for the tip.

Give it a shot, but I'm doubtful it will help much.  If it's falling apart that badly, there's probably little that can be done to keep the pieces together.

You might end up just having to pull off what you can and then carefully use a "linoleum" or other hooked knife to pop out the pieces.  If they're stuck in there good,  the other option would be to carefully line up a slot cutter with the existing slot and clean out the chips.

Good luck!


RandyT
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: Bluedeath on March 03, 2008, 10:06:36 am
maybe and i say maybe  the dremel cutting disk (the one used for the fiberglass) carefully used into the slot (but you need to have a veeeeeeeeery steady hand) could speed up your work
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: fixedpigs on March 03, 2008, 11:24:11 am
maybe and i say maybe  the dremel cutting disk (the one used for the fiberglass) carefully used into the slot (but you need to have a veeeeeeeeery steady hand) could speed up your work

why not just chase it with a router & a slot cutting bit...?
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: Neverending Project on March 03, 2008, 11:43:08 am
How about taking a shop-vac with a wedge or funnel tip to the slot to take out the remaining t-molding spine?
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: Bluedeath on March 03, 2008, 12:04:44 pm
maybe and i say maybe  the dremel cutting disk (the one used for the fiberglass) carefully used into the slot (but you need to have a veeeeeeeeery steady hand) could speed up your work

why not just chase it with a router & a slot cutting bit...?

Nothing against it but the dremel (or similar) tool is more common, easy to use and a litte dangerous.  i think that using the slot cutter would be a little overkill (I'm italian, forgive me if the word that i used are not correct)
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 03, 2008, 02:27:52 pm
Your English is fine.
I agree. A dremel is what I've thought as well. Just be careful and it should work fine.

Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: QuarterJunkie on March 03, 2008, 08:41:44 pm
I think a dremel is going to want to wander around and not make a clean cut. I vote for the slot cutter and router. Razor knife all around first to take off the top then route away.
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: Ginsu Victim on March 03, 2008, 10:44:47 pm
The dremel when operated with a foot pedal is much better. Here's how to make a variable speed pedal control:

http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/foot-pedal-mod-for-rotary-tools/index_eng (http://metku.net/index.html?path=mods/foot-pedal-mod-for-rotary-tools/index_eng)

Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: Bluedeath on March 04, 2008, 03:30:37 am
man you 're a genious! the foot pedal idea is very smart im going to buld one.
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: rrcade on March 04, 2008, 03:29:02 pm
Look closely at your cabinet, your tee molding is probably stapled in place, that might be why you are having a hard time, either that or it was glued in.  No matter how old or brittle you should be able to pull it right out unless one of the things I mentioned was done.
Title: Re: Brittle orange t-mold from a pacman cabinet - how to remove
Post by: CheffoJeffo on March 04, 2008, 03:38:04 pm
Lew -- had the same problem with mine -- was an ugly deal picking out all of the bits without hurting the slot (o/w I might have just run the router or dremel through there).