I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again, it doesn't look like much has happened since the last update on 16th July, but believe me, sanding down the door was a long process, not helped by the fact I was using one of these sanders to sand it down, it's great at what it does, but not really suitable when you have a large area to sand down. I also didn't help myself either, most of the paint stripping I'd done with the door in place, but for the final bit I thought I'd take the door off it's hinges and put it on a trestle, which made stripping it much much easier and a lot faster, now the sensible thing to do at this point would have been to take it outside (it was a nice dry day), but ohhh no, I went straight ahead and started sanding it in the room itself, not only that I had the window wide open and there was quite a breeze blowing, so naturally dust was getting everywhere, much (and quite rightly so) to my wife's annoyance, as she came upstairs she closed the other door to the room quite forcefully :), and mentioned something about keeping the door shut to contain the dust, obviously went straight over my head.
Not only was the dust going everywhere, it was also going up my nose, so wasn't long before it was blocked, and of course some of it got into my lungs and since I have Asthma, well lets just say it didn't help things much.
I persevered at sanding the door down, but after about 6 hours I was dead beat, by that time I'd probably done 2/3rd's of the door.
The next day when I was about to start, the one with the intelligence in our relationship said "why don't you take it outside to finish sanding it down", "ohh and by the way we do have dust masks, I've probably told you this many many times".
So I took the door outside (it was another nice dry day, still with a fair breeze), and I wore a dust mask (not that I really needed to as the wind blew the dust away from me anyway.
Having taken nearly two days to sand down the door, I asked if I would be allowed to purchase a belt sander, and the financial controller said of course, why didn't you get one when you started, ahh well, you live and learn, so I was allowed to buy one of these. Now of course it was too late to use it on the door, but I used it on the door frame, and within an hour I had got to the point where I could re-hang the door.
It all of course needs more sanding with ever finer sandpaper but for a first pass it's not too bad, only problem is the black paint that is like tar when hot doesn't seem to want to come off with a sander, so it's either going to get a light sanding just to score it so that paint will stick, or I'll try again with the heat gun to remove it, or try a chemical paint stripper.
