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Building Tips and technical articles. => Paint and finishing => Topic started by: Tim Wescott on September 11, 2010, 09:52:25 PM
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I'm trying the Minwax/Rustoleum process for the first time, and I had to do something twice before I figured out it was a good deal.
Minwax is really a pain to sand. It balls up into these long skinny cylinders that you have to keep brushing off the sand paper, and it's never quite smooth.
I had run into this on my test block, and made some sanding sealer by mixing Polycrylic with talcum powder (just like making sanding sealer with dope). So I got to 'that' stage in this finishing job, and I got out the sanding sealer. Boy oh boy, what a difference! Polycrylic alone is the same pain to sand that it always was, but if you mix it about 1:1 with talcum powder it turns into stuff that sands just like lacquer primer.
What I don't know is how much I've affected adhesion -- I may have just made myself a plane that will suffer from the "Minivan Hood syndrome". We'll see.
But it's nice to sand...
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Contact Allen Brickhaus for great info on this system. He has used it for years and has got it worked out... You can find his contact info in alot of the magazines or Stuka stunt I think... Good luck.