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Simon Dunkley
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Likewise - I have several pieces of wood with unusual branding marks on them.
A very useful scraper can be made from a broken vee-shaped needle file. The important thing is for the scraper to be three-sided, but using a knife rather than a 3-square sections means I can use the different widths of the faces. I have been known to use it in chiselling mode, too.
One final method - as I don't like glass fibres everywhere - is that you can use the purple Scothbrite I always recommend for cleaning the metal before tinning, to clean up after tinning and also after soldering. When I say after tinning, I do mean immediately after for if the solder is still hot, you can wipe some of it away, and less solder before joining two pieces of metal means less cleaning up afterwards.
A very useful scraper can be made from a broken vee-shaped needle file. The important thing is for the scraper to be three-sided, but using a knife rather than a 3-square sections means I can use the different widths of the faces. I have been known to use it in chiselling mode, too.
One final method - as I don't like glass fibres everywhere - is that you can use the purple Scothbrite I always recommend for cleaning the metal before tinning, to clean up after tinning and also after soldering. When I say after tinning, I do mean immediately after for if the solder is still hot, you can wipe some of it away, and less solder before joining two pieces of metal means less cleaning up afterwards.