That supply house guy in Cleveland is spreading a dangerous myth.

That Ford bed side story is why I switched to Evercoat sticks too.

It's still just a wipe-on finish at the end of the day. Building eight coats sounds like a lot of work for a shortcut method. I doubt it holds up like a real finish would.

Heating it up first is a total game changer, @reese997. I used a regular lighter on mine for just ten seconds and it twisted right off. The oil method always left my hands greasy and took forever. Your torch idea sounds even faster for really stuck ones.

Look, my old email password was literally "monkey" for like a decade. I only changed it after my bank account got weird. So maybe we're not the best people to ask for advice. The trick is making the new password easy to remember but hard to guess, like your grandma's old phone number plus the name of your first pet.