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@woodworker435 , Thanks for the idea. I did all the things you suggested, especially the fan. I’m not sure I understand the chemistry, but I kept the door open anyway. What I mean is that we probably used about 50 mL per coat (actually on the piece and not soaked into the rags). At 25% solids, that’s around 10g of material. As a wild guess, if the stuff that needs to react is 50 g/mol and I need a couple of oxygens for each, then I need 2/5 mol of oxygen. Heck, call it a mol. So, I need ballpark 20L of oxygen. My garage is 8’x10’x20′, which is 45000L, of which 20% is O2. So, there are 9000L of oxygen in the garage, and I need 20 to cure this stuff. I left the door open anyway. 🙂
I really like the waterlox, and could learn to live with the dry time (maybe), but what really has me on the fence is the sheen. It is just too shiny for many projects, to my taste. It would be good for a table top, often. Have you ever rubbed it out to a lower sheen? How long did you let it cure beforehand? I played with the satin waterlox on scrap, but it was runny too. I might be able to get it on without sagging, but from what I read, if you do not get a heavy coat of that stuff, the flatteners streak. Some people love it, some say they never get it to work. Do you have any experience either rubbing out the original formula sealer/finish or applying the satin?
Sorry for the chemistry dump. There’s probably an error in it somewhere.
- This reply was modified 8 years ago by Ed.