[CAUT] lacquer

[Horace Greeley]

Don,

This is great!

Like Charles, I have (usually) been able to find what I need at a 
Sherwin-Williams store.  Also, local to this part of Northern CA is 
Kelly-Moore paints, who will special order in (relatively) small lots.

I'll be interested to know what you think of the tone...

Best.

Horace


At 09:20 AM 12/4/2004, you wrote:
>List,
>
>Not long ago there was a thread on lacquer. There was some discussion 
>about water white nitrocellulose but there was no mention on where to 
>obtain it. I looked around the area and no stores handle water white 
>nitrocellulose. This lead me to the web. Here is a link with a basic 
>description if you are interested:
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>http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Water_white_lacquers.html
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>I'm not an expert on web searches so it was impossible for me to find any 
>distributors of this product in the east. I did find the product and a 
>distributor in CA. The product is from US Cellulose and the distributor is 
>Liberon Supply. Here is a page from their site:
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>http://www.liberonsupply.com/USCBase.html
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>Unfortunately one cannot buy anything smaller than a gallon. The price is 
>reasonable for the gallon but with the shipping and HASMAT fee it costs 
>$47.63. Well what the heck, I bought one!
>
>The gallon arrived yesterday so I have not had a chance to try some hammer 
>hardening with it. The solids are 24% by weight and it is fairly clear. 
>Mixed with thinner it looks very clear. Eric Schandall was here for a 
>visit last week (another story) and he gave me a bit of the Steinway mix 
>that is unavailable to us. Attached is a pic of four bottles with 
>different hardeners. From the left, the first is standard nitrocellulose 
>lacquer from most hardware stores, next is the Steinway mix(3:1), US 
>Cellulose mix (5:1) and finally the acetone mix from the Pianotek pellets. 
>If the reproduction on your screen is accurate, the US Cellulose is the 
>most clear of the four.
>
>The information from the woodweb site says that water white will yellow 
>with time. Of course that is on wood applications. It will be interesting 
>to see how the hammers will look in time. How much time is anyone's guess.
>
>Don McKechnie
>Ithaca College
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