Water-Base Laquer, was: Chemical resistant gloves

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Mon, 3 Jun 2002 18:27:42 -0400


http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/

http://www.homesteadfinishing.com/oxford.htm

The first link is Homestead Finishing home page, the second their page addressing Oxford products. I had bought a 10 gallons of a stripper that is water-washable and just didn't know much about those that might require solvents to clean up the stripper mess.

Terry Farrell
  
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From: <Erwinspiano@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 10:56 AM
Subject: Re: Chemical resistant gloves


>     Terry
> 
>     acetone or most commonly lacquer thinner is used as an after wash to 
> remove any left over residues. It's not as common any more because of the 
> water wash stripper but we more commonly rewash all the stripped parts with 
> T.S.P and steel wool for that purpose.
>   Can you post the address and info for oxford products? Thanks
> >>>>>>>Dale Erwin>>>>>>>>>>>
> 
> > I recommend you consider water-base lacquers. No stink, and you won't blow 
> > yourself up. I use Oxford Premium Spray lacquers, as do several others on 
> > this list.
> > 
> > Any good paint store has adequate gloves. Just get some that say they will 
> > resist nasty solvents. I have several different pair that the stripper does 
> > not penetrate. Acetone is not too nasty. If the gloves don't melt from the 
> > stripper, they won't have a problem with acetone (or rather, probably 
> > not!). Acetone? I've not heard of using acetone after stripper. What kind 
> > of stripper are you using?
> > 
> > 
> 
> 


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