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<p>[QUOTE="Gatoblanconz, post: 9560073, member: 14927"]I tried in the corner of it with mineral turpentine and then I tried in the corner with white spirit and I couldn't get anything to budge at all. No change to the surface even with fairly hard rubbing in a very small area.</p><p>I think there may even be a newer varnish over the old varnish, I noticed that there is fluff caught in varnish like little hairs like off a jersey or something.</p><p><br /></p><p>So yeah I'll leave it. If it was like all those videos where you get like the brown varnish just kind of melting off I would have continued and rolled the dice[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gatoblanconz, post: 9560073, member: 14927"]I tried in the corner of it with mineral turpentine and then I tried in the corner with white spirit and I couldn't get anything to budge at all. No change to the surface even with fairly hard rubbing in a very small area. I think there may even be a newer varnish over the old varnish, I noticed that there is fluff caught in varnish like little hairs like off a jersey or something. So yeah I'll leave it. If it was like all those videos where you get like the brown varnish just kind of melting off I would have continued and rolled the dice[/QUOTE]
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