I've never tried sanding cabinet decals off, I use a heat gun and a scraper. Anyone have opinions on which way is better?

I notice you use the ROS without a vacuum so I assume you get a decent amount of dust, my shop is smaller and many times there are games nearby that are close to finished so I need to work clean. I have an electric ROS not one that uses compressed air. The way I've tried in the past is heat gun and scraper to remove the decals followed by sprayway 909 orange power plus de-greaser and then scrape all the glue off, then I would sand. Never had problems with raising the grain. This time I tried skipping the de-greaser and scraping and sanding it off using my ROS hooked up to the shop vac. I did 1 side yesterday with 80 grit and it was slow going and used a lot of sandpaper, today I tried 60 grit on the other side and it went much faster. Hooked up to the shop vac the dust wasn't too bad.

McCune uses a festool ( there's a vid on youtube:

) The festool aint cheap so not jumping into that but sure looks quick and easy. But I don't think scared stiff was decals so I'm not sure if you could do this on a decaled game. I know I keep calling them decals but it's really vinyl ( or whatever) coated plywood and the art is silk screened but it's easier to call them decals

Not sure how HEP does it. Anyway hope I'm not hijacking the thread, just trying to share my feedback.

do you do anything to keep the coil wrappers from unraveling? I have had problems with new wrappers unraveling and used double-sides scotch tape at the end of the wrapper, curious how others handle that.

This is what I've been ranting about lately, don't know what's going on but I am spending way more time than I used to hunting down parts and have to go through lots of different sellers to get what I need. It really slows down the restoration when you don't have what you need.