How to remove the coating from a new router bit?

[remod2006]

What's the safest, most efficient way to remove that thick rubbery coating from a Whiteside router bit?

[remod2006]

What's the safest, most efficient way to remove that thick rubbery coating from a Whiteside router bit? I figure it's there to protect the bit from damage during shipping but when it arrives, there's no note that says how to get it off so you can use the bit.

[Toller]

Does everyone else see that his question is repeated as an answer, or is it just me? If its not me, what causes that? If it is me, what causes that?

Anyhow, if it doesn't come off easily, I score it with a box cutter. Once you get a little going, everything else follows.

[B A R R Y]

I just slit it with my knife and peel it off.

[J T]

Sun, Oct 29, 2006, 1:11pm (EST-3) [e-mail] doth burble: =A0=A0What's the safest, most efficient way to remove that thick rubbery coating from a Whiteside router bit? I figure it's there to protect the bit from damage during shipping but when it arrives, there's no note that says how to get it off so you can use the bit.

This is either a troll, or you lead a very sad life. When you go to a Chinese resturaunt, and get chopsticks in a little paper package, do you have to ask the waitress/waiter how to get them out?

Are you allowed to carry a pocket knife? What I do is just peel off a strip with MY pocket knife, and then pull the whole thing off with my fingers. Safest way? Most efficient way? Maybe not for you, but it is for me. Oh yeah, I figured that out all on my own, about 2 seconds after the first time I saw it.

Or, I suppose you could just leave it on, and let it wear off during use.

JOAT If it can't kill you, it ain't a sport.

[Leon]

Yeah, and all those sealed plastic bags, how do you get them open also? LOL

Pee it off.

[Chuck Taylor]

Make sure you do NOT have the bit installed in a plugged-in router if you attempt this method.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Same way you do with a latex rubber.

[Bill]

You're supposed to take that stuff Off?

Uh oh.

;-]

[Bill]

You're supposed to take that stuff Off?

Uh oh.

;-]

[Edwin Pawlowski]

Won't the acid corrode it?

[nailshooter41]

OK, I went out to try your method, and didn't get much to come off. Do you have any pictures showing exactly how this method is applied?

Hah!

; ^)

Robert

[Henry St.Pierre]

[e-mail] wrote in news:1162156264.471546.297170 @h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:

Perhaps there's an 800 number you can call for assistance.

[JNestle]

Thanks, Barry. Apparently, the ladies who had such a hard time with this question really wanted to encourage a newbie to practice on a $70 bit. Because they were born knowing everything and never had to ask anybody; they were using routers when they were in utero. That's why they're famous and have their own TV shows. Or maybe because their Chinese bits never cost over $5 so why not experiment? Try acetone, a torch, sandpaper, it's only $5.

B A R R Y wrote:

[JNestle]

Hey, your mommy can cut it off with her tongue, I bet. Or just drool on it and let the acid work. Whoever raised you certainly didn't teach you to hide your feminine cattiness.

Who's sadder, a person who never owned a router before and has to ask basic questions or a guy who's so insanely hypercritical, he can't handle a question without working his own insecurities out in front of God, the world and everybody?

Keep it up, mommy will spank you. Again.

J T wrote:

[Dave Sizemore]

Does that cut down on the Godawful smell when you first use the bit?

[Leon]

I'd post a picture but I would have to get too far back to get the "whole" picture. ;~)

[Mike Marlow]

...must be a style and rail set you're talking about...

[J T]

Sun, Oct 29, 2006, 10:18pm (EST-3) [e-mail] doth burble: =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Hey, your mommy can cut it off with her tongue, I bet. Or just drool on it and let the acid work. Whoever raised you certainly didn't teach you to hide your feminine cattiness. =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Who's sadder, a person who never owned a router before and has to ask basic questions or a guy who's so insanely hypercritical, he can't handle a question without working his own insecurities out in front of God, the world and everybody? =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0Keep it up, mommy will spank you. Again.

ROTFLMAO You're so silly. You need to learn to think for yourself, like the rest of us do. Or, just stop trolling. You big silly, you.

JOAT If it can't kill you, it ain't a sport.

[nailshooter41]

oooooohhhhh. Impressive.

Chuckle.

If you are still following along here Leon, watcha workin' on these days?

Robert