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   UncleDunc | Sep 08, 2002 06:22am | #1

   Here's one. http://www.parkscorp.com/solvents.html 5 gallons, gallons, and quarts. There's a store locater link on the page.

   Have you Googled?

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   PlaneWood | Sep 08, 2002 07:09pm | #2

   Unk Dunk -

   Yeah, I've googled!  Also tried the local HD, Loews, Kmart, Target, Shermin Williams, and turned up nothing.

   Boiled linseed oil has additives that I do not want.  I am wanting to cook my own varnish.

   Art supply stores have it, as well as Stand Oil, sun bleached, etc but usually only in pint quantities at a very high price. 

   Thanks!

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

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   bill_1010 | Sep 08, 2002 07:14pm | #3

   my local farm and home has raw linseed oil by the gallons. fairly cheap too. 

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   UncleDunc | Sep 08, 2002 10:49pm | #5

   Here are a few more.

   http://www.runninghorseranch.net/ProductsList.htm

   http://www.eezimmermanco.com/products_files/LinseedOilRaw.html

   http://www.barrettine.co.uk/woodcare/oils.htm

   http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/cgi-local/SoftCart.exe/store/product_list_pages/Solvents_Linseed_Oil.html?E+scstore

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   JAllen9301 | Sep 09, 2002 10:39pm | #6

   Mike,

   Very interested to find out how the varnish cooking goes. I've heard that true heat polymerization of linseed oil is an extremely invlolved, complicated process, and I'd like to know if it deserves this mystique or not. Let us know how it turns out.

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   PlaneWood | Sep 09, 2002 11:15pm | #7

   Not really, kinda like making candy.  You bring it up to temp and leave it there till it forms a 'soft ball' in cold water of on cold glass.  Temp is about 375-400 * F.  Just don't use an open flame or do it inside.

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

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   bill_1010 | Sep 10, 2002 12:40am | #8

   just looked at my farm and home store. FYI raw linseed oil there is 12.50 gallon

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   HowardAcheson | Sep 10, 2002 02:02am | #9

   There's more to varnish than just "cooked" linseed oil. Cooking linseed oil to a certain temperature and holding it there for some period of time is the old fashioned way of making "boiled" linseed oil. Going to an even higher temperature creates a product called polymerized linseed oil which means it will dry more rapidly. Tried & True is a polymerized linseed oil as is TruOil. But, neither is varnish in spite of what T&T calls their product.

   Vanish is a product that results from mixing and heating both an oil (linseed, tung or most often, soya) and resin (phenolic, alkyd). If you want poly varnish, add a little urethane to pot.

   Now, why would you want to make your own varnish with all the different types ready made?

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   PlaneWood | Sep 10, 2002 05:14am | #10

   Cause the stuff I'm makin ain't ready made!  Plus, it's a challenge.

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

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   BG | Sep 08, 2002 08:05pm | #4

   Planewood,

   You do know, of course, that linseed oil is one of the best oils to consume for your health.  I won't go through the nutritional aspects, but I think the good stuff is cold pressed.  Do you think this would work for your project?  perhaps the supermarket or the health food store would be your best bet, albeit a bit expensive.  BG

3. 
   PlaneWood | Sep 11, 2002 07:05am | #11

   Well I checked 3 farm & ranch stores today and no one had any.  Going to start calling paint stores tomorrow.   I wonder if tung oil would cook up like linseed oil??

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_Katy
   PlaneWood

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   SgianDubh | Sep 11, 2002 07:16am | #12

   Call Finisher's Supply at 410 Bluebell, 281 448 1371, or Murphy Bros. Paint supply on Bissonnet, 713 529 3485. Both these polish supply houses carry it, or at least it was just sitting on the shelf in gallon containers when I was last at either. Slainte.RJFurniture

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   PlaneWood | Sep 12, 2002 07:24pm | #13

   Sgain - called those places and neither had it. Only had boiled linseed oil.

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

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   PlaneWood | Sep 13, 2002 05:41am | #14

   Found a paint store that can order it in 5 gallon containers.  Was about the 20th I had called.  Benjamin Moore paints on west Memorial.  No feed store in a 50 mile radius has any.  Appears that Cottonseed oil has replace Linseed oil with the cows and show people.

   For those of you wondering, I'm going to cook my own Pontypool Asphaltum. 

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

1. 
   RSRose | Sep 13, 2002 06:01am | #15

   Thought you were cookin' up Kickapoo Joy Juice.

   How long, you gonna let it ferment?

   Rich

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   PlaneWood | Sep 13, 2002 09:38pm | #16

   3 hrs.  I like my joy juice raw!

   PlaneWood by Mike_in_KatyPlaneWood

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   RSRose | Sep 13, 2002 11:04pm | #18

   Yum!

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   SgianDubh | Sep 13, 2002 09:44pm | #17

   Hmm. Sorry about the bum steer Mike. I could have sworn I saw it on the shelf at both, but I must be mistaken. At least you didn't waste any fuel driving over to either, and you seem to have found a source. Slainte.