[TheForge] Permalac

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

I think most of the drying oil type finishes like linseed 
oil, penetrol, or tung oil work fine, if the work is 
recoated often enough.
Damper and warmer = more often.

Lucky7Steel wrote:
> Well, my 2 cents for the Permalac thread.
> 
> So far some of the good things i've noticed are for one, it doesn't smell as
> bad as tremclad. Also, it dries to touch in like....2 minutes.
> I have no idea how it'll do outside (i guess if it rusts asap i'll get an
> angry client call of course). it said it covers something like 24ft but one
> can barely covered my piece which is mostly made of 3/4 steel rods. Sadly
> it's also about 3 times the price of Tremclad. It better not rust!! ;-)
> I was talking to some furniture folks last week who blacken steel with a
> patina (probably jax i'd think) and then coat with Tung oil. Anyone have an
> opinion on such things?
> 
> ~karen~
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