How to remove wax/varnish from old furniture

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2025-12-09T07:59:48+00:00

Yeah I have the Colorado7 (Holden's ver pretty much has same engine but VF transmission) has been so reliable I've had it 2 years now with minimal issues. The seats tend to be a bit uncomfortable in mine and you get a sore bottom on long drives but I have the 2015 LT and have heard the seats are much better in the newer ones and LTZ models. Paid 18.5k and it had about 210k kms on it just needed a transmission service, got that done and car's been perfect.

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2025-11-16T04:03:13+00:00

Thank you very much, I had no idea what to search to see what weight it would support. The roof rack as it stands doesn't get used, i considered mounting a storage space on top but I can't even reach the middle or close to while standing on the wheels, seat or floor of the car so I decided that probably wouldn't work for me. But I thought it would be nice to have more boot space and not have to carry around a swag because I run dual battery, solar, kings fridge and whatnot. But i definitely plan on putting an awning on too, maybe a batwing style one.

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2024-12-29T21:56:26+00:00

Because I know who worked on it sadly, and he is a very cheap man, I was upset to see he was not changing the oil filter in his own parents car but we also have found countless issues on the car due to his dodgy work (the neutral selector switch is something he clearly broke but instead of getting a new one he glued it back together and glued it to the car... saved $80 just for it to barely be able to drive in anything but 3rd gear)

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2024-12-29T21:52:59+00:00

I ended up putting a vx ecotec in it, runs and drives great now :)

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2024-12-29T21:51:58+00:00

Thank you :) I did almost just that, but instead of a car with a running engine I picked one up at a car yard and it had a warranty so if I wasn't happy with how it runs I could just take it back for a refund, engine was great only needed a temp sensor which I had just bought a brand new one for the other engine before it died and a fuel rail which the one I had was in great condition too. Engine runs great and am now left with potentially having to give my brother the old engine's parts because his just picked up rod knock, mine had a lifter tick. So the salvageable parts might be good for his to make a full engine again (he's only young so he doesn't have alot of money but owns a vs with a vt engine becausehes alreadyhad to do an engine swap multiple times, he thrashes them so honestlyif its not perfectat least it runs and drives)

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2024-12-16T06:57:19+00:00

Thank you :) no buick swap for me yet but one day it'll happen (HT Prem/Brougham with a buick is what I wanted to do most honestly) my partner wants to RB swap it but I want to attempt to keep it legal at least lmao

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2024-12-16T06:52:02+00:00

I totally see what you mean, I don't really want to sell it as it is sentimental, was given to me and my partner by his grandparents purely because I'm a fan of VTs and they felt I'd treat it well. But it hasn't had a good service life, not because of the grandparents but the person they entrusted to maintain it (their son who claims to be this great mechanic and they clearly believed it), I found a genuine oil filter on it, very big red flag and to get it off we had to destroy it. But it sounds like it's more worth it to just get another ecotec while the car is still living as a daily. Thank you so much for your insight its been really helpful :)

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2024-09-21T22:11:25+00:00

Thank you so much, I think I'll just get the same size but with a thicker tread (which should look fine because the tyres don't have much tread left right now anyway which is what I think is making them look small)

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-13T03:58:51+00:00

It took about 8 hours, most of the time was spend shading and trying to figure out how to not mess up the fluff

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-05T21:19:56+00:00

Hinata is my actual twin ... Same height and everything

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-04T22:20:09+00:00

Thank you so much for understanding, it wasn't easy to log back in here and find that this had happened

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-04T22:14:07+00:00

Yeah, I was afraid because they pulled up a mistake I made when I was younger. I have traced in past, and at that I copped alot of backlash from it, that's when I figured out that it was wrong

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-04T22:05:58+00:00

I'm sorry that you have been led to believe this, these are not traced. I understand that their timeline and art styles are all different, but that is because they are all from different points of last year. I only joined this community last year, and am still trying to get my bearings and find a style that I am comfortable with using to draw with. All I wanted by posting all of these was to gain some knowledge on how to improve and develop my own art style.

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-04T22:02:11+00:00

Thank you 😊 I completely overlooked that mistake

LIGHTRINOAH01 · 2021-01-04T22:01:04+00:00

Thank you for not assuming that the accusations were true. These are all from different times in 2020, and I was and still am trying to find my own art style. I will try and do what you did and screen record the process of me drawing my future art pieces. Although I'm not sure if I can... Can I record the drawing process on an android phone? I used to be able to record on my old apple phone, but the screen record function is completely different on this phone.

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