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FINISH CLEANER

Specialty Definition: FINISH CLEANER

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Occupations

Repairs defects, such as holes, cracks, and scratches, in finish of furniture or furniture stock: Examines each defective article to determine method of repair. Fills holes and cracks with shellac or wax, using heated blade to melt and spread wax and shellac. Removes varnish and smooths cracks and scratches with sandpaper. Applies stain to match furniture surface and varnish to protect surface, using brush or spray gun. Smooths and shapes repaired surface with sandpaper, pumice stone, steel wool, or chisel. Nails, screws, or glues broken or split parts together. Rubs glossy spots with pumice stone and oil, and polishes dull spots with wax to match surrounding finish. Dabs moistened cloth to and presses heated blade against dents and scratches to draw indentations to surface. May chisel out defective sections and replace them with patch matching color and grain. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: FINISH CLEANER

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-f-h-i-i-l-n-n-r-s"

-2 letters: enfranchise.

-3 letters: channelers, financiers, franchisee, rechannels, refinances.

-4 letters: canneries, carnifies, channeler, clarifies, enhancers, financier, flaneries, flinchers, franchise, hairlines, incliners, infancies, insincere, larcenies, lichenins, linearise, narceines, rechannel, refinance, reliances, schlieren.

-5 letters: aerifies, airlines, alieners, anilines, anserine, archines, carlines, channels, charlies, charnels, chiseler, cinerins, clannish, cleaners, cleanser, crannies, enchains, enchaser, enhancer, enhances, enriches, enshrine, faiences, fanciers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: FINISH CLEANER


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

46 49 4E 49 53 48      43 4C 45 41 4E 45 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000110 01001001 01001110 01001001 01010011 01001000 00100000 01000011 01001100 01000101 01000001 01001110 01000101 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#70 &#73 &#78 &#73 &#83 &#72 &#32 &#67 &#76 &#69 &#65 &#78 &#69 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0046 0049 004E 0049 0053 0048      0043 004C 0045 0041 004E 0045 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

404348435342237463935483952

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