[HBR] OT--WW I surplus

[Walt Hutchens]

Stan said:

> In pretty sure that lacquers require a lower degree of nitration than
> explosive/propellant grade.  Guncotton is not nearly so easy to dissolve
> for a lacquer as mono- or dinitrate.

And nitrate lacquers were already well known before the war. The less
expensive civilian radios and furniture were finished with them
(shellac on the better stuff) and of course the film stock of those
days was nitrocellulose.

Walt Hutchens