At our builder's group Thursday night I demonstrated how to remove the plastic from the skins the easy way. Everybody was impressed & you should have seen the jaws drop when they saw how easy it is.
Peel back about an inch of plastic. Tape that plastic to a pipe, broomstick, or whatever you have that's round. Be sure to leave a couple inches of the pipe exposed at each end. Add a lever of some sort to the pipe--I clamp on some vise grips. Start turning the pipe. You can peel the plastic off with one finger on the vise grips. When it is off, hook one end of the pipe under a corner of a workbench or anything handy, hold the other end in one hand & unroll it from the pipe.
It's not my idea; I saw it mentioned once on a forum recently. Since it worked out so well & I saw nothing more said about it, I thought I would spread the word some more.
Peel back about an inch of plastic. Tape that plastic to a pipe, broomstick, or whatever you have that's round. Be sure to leave a couple inches of the pipe exposed at each end. Add a lever of some sort to the pipe--I clamp on some vise grips. Start turning the pipe. You can peel the plastic off with one finger on the vise grips. When it is off, hook one end of the pipe under a corner of a workbench or anything handy, hold the other end in one hand & unroll it from the pipe.
It's not my idea; I saw it mentioned once on a forum recently. Since it worked out so well & I saw nothing more said about it, I thought I would spread the word some more.
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