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I have a foodsaver vacuum device,which can evacuate a wide-mouth mason-type
jar. I would like to hear from anyone who has tryed keeping poly or oil-finishes with this or a similar device. It seems to me that if one could pull all of the air(Oxygen) out of the container the finishes might last
a little while longer. I do lots of small projects and rarely use all of a quart of poly, I would love to be able to save it. Comments?
JR
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JR,
I think it's a hell of an idea! Worth a try, any who. Let us know if it works.
Dano
*Darn, mine is the plain pipe rack kind and doesn't have that! Great idea. We'll see you on the infomercial!!
*I think you will find that it creates a rather small vacuum. It still leaves a volume of oxygen in the jar/can. The thing you want to do is reduce the volume of space available for oxygen. If you have a jar half full of liquid and add marbles to raise the liquid level to the top of the jar and cap it, you will have virtually no room for oxygen and certainly have less oxygen than trying to create a small vacuum. Replace the oxygen with an inert gas will work well also.
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