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Re: Strip: varnish runs
By:James
Date: 8/25/2012, 8:27 pm
In Response To: Re: Strip: varnish runs (Jay Babina)

: Varnish stays rubbery� for a long time or.. It takes quite a while
: before it is sand-able unless you use wet sand paper.

: Two tips - watch doing around the coaming because if you press a
: foam brush into the coaming it will squeeze out more varnish
: that you realize and an hour later you have a drip.

: If I have a drip I have used a single edge razor blade and holding
: it on an extreme angle, you can slice away the drip and not go
: through the surface.

: Scrapers will only work if the varnish is hard and then the damage
: can be greater than the drip.

Exactly. Every varnish drip seems to be below the cockpit coaming, where you spend time "maneuvering" the brush. My "secret" of varnishing is to apply (lots of) VERY thin coats, so that there isn't enough material to drip.

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Strip: varnish runs
Joe Wuts -- 8/23/2012, 12:09 pm
Re: Strip: varnish runs
John Messinger -- 8/23/2012, 12:53 pm
Re: Strip: varnish runs
Greg H -- 8/23/2012, 1:37 pm
Re: Strip: varnish runs
Rob Macks/Laughing Loon CC&K -- 8/23/2012, 1:47 pm
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John Messinger -- 8/23/2012, 2:34 pm
Re: Strip: varnish runs
MattD -- 8/23/2012, 2:39 pm
Re: Strip: varnish runs
Dave Houser -- 8/23/2012, 4:41 pm
Re: Strip: varnish runs
Jay Babina -- 8/24/2012, 8:34 am
Re: Strip: varnish runs
James -- 8/25/2012, 8:27 pm