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Wet Sanding A Stock: Learned Something New
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Do NOT use "odorless Turpenoid" brand thinner.

I bought this since it claimed to have the same evaporation rate as real turpentine and mineral spirits.

I was sanding in a laboratory hood, constant airflow into the hood, ocaisionally I would get a whiff of the oil but I didn't think much of it since I had cut it in half with the thinnner. By the time I was done sanding I was higher than a kite and feeling nauseous. I will donate this expensive ($8.95 pint) little liquid experiment to the University and buy mineral spirits.

Lesson learned.
 
Posts: 1844 | Location: Southwest Alaska | Registered: 28 February 2001Reply With Quote
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I don't know what you were using but I use oderless mineral spirits all the time, have been for years and it has never bothered me and I just work in the garage or rather a shop...I get mine at Fred Myres...
 
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This is the stuff. This is the reason I learned a lesson. This is the reason I am dontaing it to the University's lab supply and purchasing mineral spirits from Fred Meyer. I will not ever buy odorless. I want to smell it. If I can smell it I am being exposed.
I do not know what is in it or what the turpenoid is made from but it will knock your dick in the dirt.
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Posts: 1844 | Location: Southwest Alaska | Registered: 28 February 2001Reply With Quote
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I paint for a living and I have to say the reason you don't smell odorless strippers/thinners is because you are high as a kite. The only thinner I have used that doesn't give you a headache is good old kerosine, yes you can use kero to thin paint Timmy.
 
Posts: 593 | Location: My computer. | Registered: 28 November 2001Reply With Quote
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I do art restoration as part of my living. Anything that makes contact with the oil paintings I use good old turp. For cleaning brushes I use kero or varsol.
For working on my gun stocks I've used Herter's red, applied with a pad of linen, then polished down 0000 steel wool and applied again. Then I sand the whole thing down with fine wet or dry, dry. Tack rag it and apply Linspeed or..what the heck is the name, again rubbing in with linen.
I've also used matt finish furniture varnish with good results.
Jim
 
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