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Why add linseed oil to paint
By:Robert Sonday
Date: 3/3/2000, 2:30 pm

Have read a number of letters where folks building skin on frame kayaks are mixing linseed oil in to exterior oil base paints. They talk of having to wait 3 weeks between coats. I have in my 8 th grade woodworking class, just used oilbase white thinned 50 % then full coat on 2 nd. coat. Why the linseed oil.

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Why add linseed oil to paint
Robert Sonday -- 3/3/2000, 2:30 pm
Re: Why add linseed oil to paint
Greg Stamer -- 3/6/2000, 10:43 am
Re: Why add linseed oil to paint
Jay Babina -- 3/6/2000, 9:08 am
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Mike Hanks -- 3/6/2000, 11:00 am
Re: Why add linseed oil to paint
Tom Preska -- 3/5/2000, 10:24 am