What did you accomplish today?

[MICHI-CAN]

I've been an industrial painter most of my 35 or so years as a laborer. Nothing good about any aspect of the products.

 

[cannabineer]

I've been an industrial painter most of my 35 or so years as a laborer. Nothing good about any aspect of the products.

I really dislike when “shit that works” disappears from the shelf and is replaced by “shit that doesn’t work but allows environmental virtue signaling”. “Being green” gets taken too far. DenaturedFUCKINGalcohol is banned here.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Lol. Denatured is one the safest and most effective solvents I know of in the trade. Stained decks for ever with oil based Thomsucks. Lasted years. Did mine last summer with low VOC "friendly" Thoms son sucks water based. Less than 3 months. Looks worse than before the project. Poison has it's uses.

 

[cannabineer]

Lol. Denatured is one the safest and most effective solvents I know of in the trade. Stained decks for ever with oil based Thomsucks. Lasted years. Did mine last summer with low VOC "friendly" Thoms son sucks water based. Less than 3 months. Looks worse than before the project. Poison has it's uses.

A perfect example.

 

[Chunky Stool]

Can't you mix your own oil-based stain?
There are a few people here on RIU who know a bit about chemistry...

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Can't you mix your own oil-based stain?
There are a few people here on RIU who know a bit about chemistry...

Messy, time consuming and expensive. Parts tend to be more expensive than the whole.

 

[cannabineer]

Can't you mix your own oil-based stain?
There are a few people here on RIU who know a bit about chemistry...

Not cheaply, and the solvents would have to be bootlegged. Good finishing products have a lot of r&d in them that I am disinclined to try to reverse-engineer.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Black walnut skins in linseed oil for months. Diluted with paint thinner or VM&P Naptha are amazing for a natural dark stain.

 

[Chunky Stool]

Not cheaply, and the solvents would have to be bootlegged. Good finishing products have a lot of r&d in them that I am disinclined to try to reverse-engineer.

It could be a fun long-term project. Mixing small batches and testing them on a wooden pallet in the yard.

A real geek would have a go at it.

 

[MICHI-CAN]

I was a paid geek. Amazing the arrogance and vanity of the local uber wealthy. Van Andel, DeVoss, Puegh and Bissel families to name a few. Crafted some insanely awe inspiring finishes on more impressive craftsmanship from carpentry gods.

 

[curious2garden]

Can't you mix your own oil-based stain?
There are a few people here on RIU who know a bit about chemistry...

Here is where we meet the intersection of apathy and laziness

 

[cannabineer]

Here is where we meet the intersection of apathy and laziness

Not even the appeal to my geek-vanity shifts me.

 

[curious2garden]

I accomplished an @GreatwhiteNorth sighting You back from that wonderful vacation? Did the snow run away while you were gone?

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Here is where we meet the intersection of apathy and laziness

Morning. I'm inclined to disagree. The utmost in caring about your project and then the effort and commitment to its reaching it's potential by your hands. And then there is the Not my thing side. Then apathy of course. Damn geeks. Cheers.

 

[curious2garden]

Morning. I'm inclined to disagree. The utmost in caring about your project and then the effort and commitment to its reaching it's potential by your hands. And then there is the Not my thing side. Then apathy of course. Damn geeks. Cheers.

LOL How well do you know CN?

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Don't. But I have an ignore button. LOL. Not contagious right?

 

[curious2garden]

Don't. But I have an ignore button. LOL. Not contagious right?

Just a little.

 

[GreatwhiteNorth]

A couple more days in the sunshine and nonexistent WiFi before heading north, though I note I received honorable mention from an unusually angry whiner for a post deletion I didn’t take part in & a “no political posts” pm.

The skin runs shallow (like “mudflats shallow”) in that one, LOL

 

[curious2garden]

A couple more days in the sunshine and nonexistent WiFi before heading north, though I note I received honorable mention from an unusually angry whiner for a post deletion I didn’t take part in & a “no political posts” pm.

The skin runs shallow (like “mudflats shallow”) in that one, LOL

 

[MICHI-CAN]

Where did everyone go? I left the chat today? Still limited by my hobbling issue. Was relying on and enjoying fellow idiosyncratics. Guess I'm opening the windows today. First 50 degree day in forever. We can breathe again. Be happy one way or another. Thanks all.