I've put in an interlibrary loan request for W. A. Waldie's book "The
Science of Wrinkle Finishing:" It may never appear but if it does, it
promises to be the bible of wrinkle finishing. Printed at Dayton, Ohio
in 1949.
In my one experiment in wrinkling nearly 40 years ago, I did bake the
panel in my kitchen oven. What temperature I don't know, probably didn't
know then.
By the time I was at Collins, all the paint was baked. Most was smooth
epoxy paint. I have no information to know what the paint department was
like in the 50s in the plant on 35th. But if baking was good, they
probably baked. I remember that the ART-13 was wrinkled too.
At least one of the on-line references I found recently said that the
spray wrinkles from Krylon and Rustoleum demanded the painted surface be
held at 90 (I presume �F) and that the second coat be applied at right
angles to the first and at the precise interval stated on the can.
73, Jerry, K0CQ, Technical Advisor to the CRA
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