Reddit reviews Bahco 625 Premium Ergonomic Carbide Scraper, 1", with Plastic Holder,Black
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Maximum comfort with minimum effort due to the ergonomic designComfortable 2 component handle giving an excellent gripCarbide blades for easy removal of paint, glue, varnish and rust off various surfacesDesigned for precision work such as windows and mouldingsSupplied with a 449, 25 mm triangular bladeOther suitable blades 625-Round,Drop and Pear
As an old house lover (and fellow old house owner), I'm begging you to please restore those windows! It can be done!
I'm making this response extra long and detailed since this question comes up from time to time. Hopefully it can be a resource for others.
But I say this as a guy who bought a real wreck of a house where the previous owner had let everything go. We needed to fix all 45 openings at once as part of a major rehab, and after 6 weeks of effort, about $3000 of experimentation (including taking a week off work and hiring two people to help me), I finally gave up and put in vinyl windows. It completely broke my heart, and my house is uglier because of it. But sometimes, an old window is just too far gone to save. But in that process I learned a lot and I'd like to share a few things.
OK, on to your questions.
General resources and tools I found useful:
Looks like an attachment to a scraping tool like this (http://www.amazon.com/Bahco-Premium-Ergonomic-Carbide-Scraper/dp/B000288LOW/ref=pd_bxgy_hi_img_y) You can get different shaped blades for different jobs
I have 3 of those, they come in varying widths. Cool story: my wife brought one home for me from work (elderly care facility) and said one of her residents heard I worked on cars and he wanted me to have it. I had one already of a different width and loved it. I asked her why the resident had one. "Oh, he owns the company that makes them." Sure as shit they are made by Innovative Tools International in Cedar Rapids, Iowa!
They are the best thing in the world for steel surfaces but you can shave aluminum with them pretty easy so I use razor blades in holders for that.
Edit to add:
I also have one of these http://www.amazon.com/Bahco-Premium-Ergonomic-Carbide-Scraper/dp/B000288LOW
They are great for oil pan corners where it's impossible to get any other scraper.
I just went through this on one room we were refinishing. We needed to completely strip door and window molding (2 of each), 2 doors, and floor molding.
I've used chemical stripers before, but it's been a few years and I wondered if there were any new miracle products, but after reading 100's of reviews I concluded there aren't.
I've used belt, disc and palm sanders a lot (have several boats) and wasn't looking forward to that at all. I've also used heat strippers of various sorts, and that's no picnic, either.
As others have pointed out, in some cases it may be better to just replace the trim. Our house is 80 years old, with plaster on lath walls and I feared that would risk getting down to complete demo to studs given the amount of plaster damage trim removal would incur.
What I finally wound up using mostly was carbide scrapers. I was no stranger to scrapers, but had never used the fancy carbide ones. It still was a long, tedious job, and scrapers require some muscle and a finish sanding, but as bad as it was, it still beat the alternatives by quite a bit.
Scrapers we used:
Bahco 625 Premium Ergonomic Carbide Scraper, 1", with Plastic Holder
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000288LOW/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
Bahco 665 Premium Ergonomic Carbide Scraper, 2-1/2"
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000288LP6/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8
Bahco Replacement 625-DROP Carbide Scraper Blade
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0001P0PJA/ref=cm_sw_r_an_am_ap_am_us?ie=UTF8