Horace, Thank you for your response to my questions: Would the development of the use of acetone be related to the different time constraints and the type of work being done in the C and A Deptartment? If lacquer of one type or another is better than the plastics is there any reason to avoid using acetone as the thinner? Your response: "The answer to question one is that that is the excuse used to justify the change. Question two is less politically charged. My personal preference, when time allows, is to use lacquer thinner, rather than acetone. The slower drying thinner seems to allow a more homogenous penetration of the hammer. The acetone-thinned lacquer, by comparison, tends to wick to the areas of greatest surface exposure (most noticably around the edges of the hammer) and has a further tendency to "clump up" (an obscure technical term meaning some parts are unpredictably harder than others) more than lacquer thinned with thinner." I've enjoyed this thread. By it's nature voicing is a subject which can always bear discussion and comment. Thanks Regards, Eric Schandall
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