[Shop-talk] Painting a steel gate

[Doug Braun]

The interesting thing is that the Xylene-based paints are totally incompatible
with mineral spirits:  If you try to thin the paint or clean the brush, you
just get a gummy mess.

Lacquer thinner also works, but that stuff is not so healthy for cleanup...

Doug



--- On Sun, 1/18/09, Roland Wilhelmy <rwil at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: Roland Wilhelmy <rwil at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Painting a steel gate
To: "Doug Braun" <doug at dougbraun.com>
Date: Sunday, January 18, 2009, 11:44 AM

my guess is that xylene dries faster than mineral spirits.  But maybe it is
just to be 'different';-)

-Roland