A bronzing liquid was wanted for bronzing picture frames with "heavier or cheaper varnishes. The inquirer had tried varnish reduced with turpentine, but the powder immediately precipitated and did not have a metallic luster after application. You cannot expect heavy bronze to hold up in a thin liquid of such consistency as is required to allow the bronze to spread and flow out well and yet have a …
This is used by the foremost firm of painters and decorators of one of the most thriving cities in the western part of the United States.
Make two solutions, the first to consist of one and one-quarter pounds of glue, dissolved in four gallons of water ; the second to consist of one ounce of borax, five ounces of washing soda and twenty ounces of powdered rosin added to five quarts of boiling water, and to be kept boiling and stirred until all is dissolved.
Alum in paste will. not injure the colors in the paper or the paper itself, unless it is used in excess.
This depends very much on the nature of the pigment used in the paint, as well as on the strength of the drier itself and on the time allotted for drying, as well as on the application. Oil paint that is brushed out well and uniformly will dry hard in the same space of time with one-half of the quantity of drier as a coat that is laid on heavy. A good oil and turpentine liquid drier that is free f…
The general consensus of opinion among practical painters of our acquaintance is that 'co lbs. of strictly pure white lead in oil should be of proper consistency for the finishing coat when thinned with 4i gallons raw linseed oil and + gallon liquid drier, and that too lbs. of strictly pure zinc white in oil is of the right consistency for finishing when thinned with 71 gallons raw linseed oil and gallon liquid drier, the percentage of drier to be changed in each case, according to the conditions of atmosphere and temperature.
Make a hot solution of caustic potash and apply while hot with swab made of cotton waste. The hardest kind of paint will yield to this in a few minutes, and varnish will not resist much longer. If possible, wear India rubber gloves while working with this lye ; at least, be very careful to keep it from touching your skin. As soon as the paint or varnish has been removed, clean up and wash the floo…
A painter in Denver, Col., wanted to know why a certain brand of paint that had stood well on some operations, flaked on certain exposed parts of a large dwellling, leaving the priming intact. His priming he always makes from the remnants of other jobs.? So long as your paint and oil have stood well on other operations, we may say that in your climate the material may be an excellent one, although…
The following size for walls that are to be papered is highly recommended : One pound of white sheet glue is soaked in enough water to cover it over night ; then two gallons of boiling water and one-half gallon of wood naphtha (wood alcohol) are added and the whole material well mixed.
A new building was painted with two coats of white lead and linseed oil ; turpentine in second coat, but no driers in either coat. In the last coat, 20 per cent. zinc white was used. In two weeks the building was badly streaked with black, especially the porch posts. The weather had been damp and rainy. There were no trees near the house and no smoke to amount to anything within a mile ; but, when…
This will depend very much on the quality of the paper.
A school building in Oregon was painted when erected, and two years later was in such bad condition as to make repainting necessary. The condition of the paint gave the appearance of pebble embossed wall paper. It looked as though the paint had parted more in some places than in others. Three years later the school house looked worse than ever, while a residence next door painted at the same time,…
Mix two heaping tablespoonfuls of finest powdered litharge with one tablespoonful of glycerine, which must be as viscid as heavy syrup.
If first cost is not objectionable, we know of nothing better for old floors than to add some dry mineral paint, as ocher, Indian red, umber, burnt sienna, etc., to shellac varnish, and thin this mixture with enough alcohol to make it spread freely and allow of laying it off.
An iron smokestack of the height of fifty to sixty feet is generally of a fair diameter, and has knees or brackets riveted on inside on which to get to the top.
The best backing for gilding on glass when the same is to be shaded is dry lampblack mixed with quick-drying rubbing varnish and thinned with enough spirits of turpentine to make the material work evenly and freely. Or drop black ground in japan, thinned with turpentine to which a moderate.portion of quick-drying varnish has been added, will serve the purpose also very well. Either of these will n…
Information required about baking enamels and colored lacquers for toys of steel, wire and cast iron, which are to be dipped and then baked. You can obtain sufficient heat by introducing into your oven a set of steam coils, because you do not require more than 220 deg. F. at most, and the size of your steam coils should be in accordance with the size of your oven. Exhaust steam will serve the purp…
The question was asked whether it would be a benefit or injury to dipping paint, if beaten up in the vats by steam pipes running through the apparatus.
Genuine asphaltum in oil, such as is sold in tubes for artists' use, is the very best material for backing up gold leaf on glass signs.
For interior work the following has been found to work very nicely: One pound of plaster parts, one-quarter pound dry white lead and two teaspoonfuls of bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) are intimately mixed with water to a thick paste, and immediately fill the rubber bulb and proceed to work out the design, that you have previously marked out.
The best and most practical method for removing smalts from old signs is to take a hatchet with a rather blunt cutting edge, holding the handle with the left hand and the hammer end with the right hand, pushing the hatchet from you. This lends greater force to the workman and is not liable to dig into the wood. The use of corrugated rubbing brick and water is altogether too slow and unsatisfactory…
In order to make your paint hold on the zinc, you need a wash which will produce a film to which oil paint will adhere. First, remove all grease, etc., from the zinc lining with a solution of soda or ammonia, and dry the surface thoroughly. 'then apply with a wide, soft brush the following preparation, which any druggist will make for you: One part by weight of chloride of copper, one part by weig…
That depends very much on the color desired. If it is to be a clear white or a light tint, we should say give it a coat of white lead ; or white lead with coloring matter to suit, if a tint is wanted. Thin the lead with two parts raw oil and one part turpentine, with only enough drier to make this coat dry hard in twenty-four hours. Have your second coat made of equal parts of pure lead and pure z…
Trouble was caused by paint peeling from outside of white pine railway water tanks. We are afraid that no paint, especially linseed oil paint, can be made that will last for any great length of time under the conditions referrred to in your question. The tanks being permanently filled with water, the moisture of course is permanently in the staves, which keeps the paint on the outside soft in the …
The very best putty we know of for the purpose mentioned is to boil paint skins with linseed oil until they become so soft that they may be put through a paint strainer and give a fine gummy paint of fairly stout consistency.
The roof of a large barn has shingling lath about twelve and one-half inches apart. Could a good and lasting job be made by using eighteen-inch shingles, dipping them in either hot linseed or hot petroleum oil or applying either after the shingles are laid? What kind of shingles are best? If you use 18-inch shingles you will need to put intermediate laths, as no shingle should show more than one-t…
The best size for gilding on glass is, without exception, fish glue dissolved in rain water.
Dissolve one-quarter ounce of gum arabic in one quart of boiling water. It must be rain water or soft river water, and while still warm filter into a clean bottle through blotting paper or several thicknesses of filtering paper, and when cold add one tablespoonful of pure grain alcohol or rectified whisky. Allow to stand a few days before using, and if well corked it will keep for years. To clean …
Give them three coats of white shellac varnish.
Wash the brush in the usual way in benzine or gasoline, dipping it into the fluid bristles down, repeating this until the bristles appear clean, then take the end of the handle between the palm of both hands, twirling the brush rapidly so as to get out all the liquid pos- sible., Do not wipe off the brush on the edge of the pot, as many do, as this method ruins the shape of the brush.
Treat it pretty much in the same manner as you would muslin or canvas. If not wide enough to go over the whole space, have the various breadths sewed together as carpets are sewed, moisten the fabric and begin tacking it on one end or at the top for a partition with double rows of tinned or galvanized tacks; six ounce tacks will do, eight ounce are better. Stretch it out toward the edges and ends …
Take, say two pounds of finely pulverized silex or China clay, which stir into one pint of good liquid drier, beat into a fine mass, then strain through an ordinary sieve with the aid of a brush, so that all the lumps are thoroughly broken up. Then add to this paste, while stirring continuously, say three quarts or one gallon of a good, pale furniture varnish. Let it stand awhile and then strain t…
It is almost impossible for a paint maker to produce a paint to suit any and all conditions of floors, because the kind of lumber differs in various localities and floors are subjected to different usage. In kitchens where much washing is done, the soap suds are allowed to remain on the floor for hours and act as a paint remover in a slow, but certain manner. And very frequently, instead of such f…
In order to roughen the glass by means of acid, you will have to remove the sash and lay it on trusses horizontally, clean the glass thoroughly on the side to be operated on, then moisten the panes all over with white, or French acid. When roughened sufficiently, wash thoroughly with clean water. To imitate ground glass cheaply, there are several methods. The first of these is made known by Leon V…
Boil three pounds extract of logwood, one pound concentrated lye and one gallon of water until all is dissolved, then strain.
A black more intense than drop black toned up with Prussian blue was desired, in order to make a stain in imitation of ebony.
The ink mentioned in recipe, Section tog, is made from the dry material, the shellac which may be doubled, acting as the binder, the white soap and wax-as the vehicle. When used it should be moistened with alcohol, but only sufficient to make it flow from the pencil. To prepare water colors for show cards, first moisten lamp black, bronzes and all colors that have a light specific gravity with alc…
Take one-half pound of white beeswax and three ounces of ivory soap.
All locomotive painters appear to agree that there is no paint made or will ever be made which will stand any length of time on the overheated parts of a locomotive, as, for instance, the firebox, while lampblack ground in a good engine finish will stand about the longest.
Of the blacks lampblack is of most interest to the house painter_ True. lampblack is of great density of color, great bulkiness, and produces a bluish gray tint with white lead. Gas carbon black in oil is often sold as lampblack, but has a rather brown tone and produces a brownish-gray tint. Lampblack is usually adulterated with barytes or whiting, sometimes with both. In such cases it is far less…
In Terry's "Pigments, Paint and Painting," the statement is made that linseed oil may be bleached by exposing it to sunlight ; but an experiment showed that exposure to sunlight without admission of air will not do the work and that oil bleached by air and sunlight will turn dark again, when corked in a bottle, in spite of exposure to the sun.
The tints are best laid side by side, graduating from dark to light or from light to dark, making the difference of each stripe as small as possible, and if proper distance be allowed for each stripe, there will be no dividing line, and blending will not be required.
Some boats that had been varnished, blistered, checked and turned white after having been in the water but a few days.
In building an extension to a residence, the builder took off some old clapboards that had been painted with four coats of paint, using them along with the new clapboards on the extension. A painter was employed by the owner to give the entire extension two coats of paint. four weeks later the paint was found to be full of blisters, and the owner refused to make a settlement. On the old clapboards…
A house was painted during November and December with three coats of pure lead and oil.
You can buy flat brick paint in any shade of red or Milwaukee brick color in paste form, and all you require is to thin it with turpentine so? that it will dry flat when applied over a ground of oil paint of similar color.
To stain the bricks on a building to correspond with new bricks in an addition : Take fine sand, that has been washed clean and dried, and mix with a like quantity of good Portland cement in water fairly stout ; then add dry Indian red or Venetian red and yellow ocher until the proper color is obtained.
So far as we know, picture moldings formerly were bronzed by using a special varnish, from which all the acid features that might attack the bronze had been removed by treatment with caustic soda.
In browns we have umbers, sienna, Van Dyke brown and mineral brown, and these only are of interest to the house painter. Mineral brown, or metallic brown, as it is more familiarly known, is to a great extent used in the painting of roofs and for freight cars and similar work where decorative effects are not required. Suffice it to say that metallic brown in oil should be of good fineness, of good …
To burnish gilding successfully a good deal of experience is required.
Yes, it can be done by filtering through charred bones, but there is so much loss in the operation that the game is not worth the candle, and, besides, it entails much trouble and expense.
A house built in 1890 was painted with yellow ocher and allowed to remain for two months, then painted white with two coats of strictly pure white lead and linseed oil. In 1899 it was again painted white with ready mixed paint, which was found by analysis to contain 75 per cent. zinc oxide in the pigment, and mixed with strictly pure linseed oil. In igoi the paint started to crack and peel off, es…
The cracking and peeling of oil paint on exposed woodwork may be attributed to several causes, chief among which are poor material, undue haste in applying the paint and poorly seasoned lumber. If the priming paint has been too brittle, cracking and scaling is the inevitable result ; if the lumber is too green or one coat of paint applied over the other before the latter has had time to harden tho…
On an old house, which had not been painted for eight years the paint was entirely off in certain places on the exposed sides, while on the north side and in protected places the paint was still good. You painted over all with white lead and gold ocher and, naturally, -v4 here the wood was bare and very dry it absorbed the oil from your paint and left the latter practically dry and dead after a sh…
This subject has been under discussion in a master painters' organization and various reasons were given by experienced men.
A Canadian painter wrote that in his locality paint would usually blister and peel in a year when applied to new spruce clapboards, but he has had jobs that stood several years, due, he believed, to the fact that he usually does not apply paint until after the woodwork had been up for several weeks. There is not any doubt whatever in our mind but that the blistering and peeling in so short a time …
In each of the following mixtures the paint thickened after being mixed ready for use and looked like chilled kalsomine and would not cover : i. White lead and oil only. White lead, oil and a fair quantity of japan. White lead, oil and varnish. White lead, raw oil and patent dryer. From your description, we should judge that you got hold of a batch of the so-called pulp ground keg lead, which was …
Creeping or crawling of paint amounts to the same thing, and is caused either by a greasy surface or by too high a gloss of the under coats. When an old surface is to be repainted, as in kitchens, etc., the walls and woodwork must be cleaned thoroughly with soapsuds or ammonia and water, well rinsed and allowed to dry thoroughly before beginning to paint. On the exterior of buildings, it is princi…
Four months after the exterior of an iron foundry was painted one coat, the bottle green paint used for the trimmings had faded to a lead color. The building had been erected three years previously, built of ' cypress wood and painted two coats, drab color for body and bottle green for trimmings, supposed to be best lead and oil, but really composed of white ochre and dry Prussian blue, lamp black…
To fasten celluloid to wood, tin, etc. Dissolve two parts by weight of white or orange shellac in four parts by weight of 95 per. cent, grain alcohol and three parts by weight of spirits of camphor. This will make a tough binding medium between the various articles, but the tin must be first washed with soda water and wiped dry and clean to free it from grease. Removing Varnish or Floor Paint from…
Into a wide-mouthed bottle or glass jar place some small pieces of celluloid, pour sufficient sulphuric ether over these, and cork tightly.
The best filling-in material is made by intimately mixing four ounces genuine asphaltum, four ounces brown shellac and four ounces dry lampblack. The asphaltum and shellac must be powdered, and the mixture is applied by heating the brass plate and melting in the cement. When the letters are filled, the cement is smoothed off with a fairly warm sad iron. When cooled off, scrape off the surplus care…
An attempt to cement together alabaster or plaster of paris ornaments with plaster of paris and water did not hold.
We have no experience in the use of casein for cement, but we know that in paints it is a good substitute for glue.
The simplest recipe that we know of is to mix fine litharge with refined glycerine to the consistency of soft putty.
The cement is mixed with water, to which is added a portion of lime water and salt.
A house was painted with pure white lead and linseed oil, slightly tinted. Six years later it was repainted with two coats of a standard brand of white lead and a crusher's brand of raw oil, tinted green for the body and trimmed in plain white. The surface before repainting was apparently in good condition, but in less than a year the new paint had chalked badly, rubbing off the surface like so mu…
Dissolve in the usual manner one-half pound white sheet glue in one gallon of water, to which add one-half pound crystal alum previously dissolved in hot water and one-half pound white ivory soap that has been cut into thin strips and also dissolved in hot water.
The cheapest way to nuke a blackboard on a plastered wall is to smooth sandpaper the surface first, then give a coat of lampblack ground in oil, thinned with boiled oil and liquid drier ; when, dry give a second coat of lampblack in oil, thinned with equal parts boiled oll' and turpentine, to which some drier is added.
Take one part, by weight, of drop black in japan, break up with one part black japan, and thin with eight or more parts of turpentine.
A painter wants to kriow how to make a cheap black paint from coal tar, and a cheap ready mixed paint from iron oxides for covering iron and tin roofs, which should .be practically an anti-rust paint. If you want something cheap, you cannot expect wear or durability, nor can you expect to give the metal protection against rust. It has been demonstrated that coal tar, though apparently preserving i…
There are various ways of reducing the cost of paint, but it is a most difficult matter to reduce the cost to one-half, when linseed oil costs 6o cents a gallon, and yet have a good wearing paint, as the lasting qualities of paint depend almost wholly upon the nature of the binder ; and on that account we shall not advise the use of mineral or rosin oils. As dilutants or extenders (cheapeners) of …
Dissolve one-half pound commercial potash in two gallons rain water or soft water, then put one pound of yellow country beeswax into a pot, place the pot over a slow fire and melt the wax with one pint of the potash solution. When the wax and water have united add the balance of the solution and heat, while continually stirring. When the mass appears like curdled milk take from the fire, and now m…
The cheapest method we know of is to dissolve epsom salts in gum arabic water and let it stand over night.
The question was asked how the gilt chairs are made that are sold for less money than gold leaf can be put on for.
Rosin oil will probably last for two years as a paint when mixed with mineral paint that has been ground in linseed oil to a paste, but we doubt as to whether the tin roof will last that long.
The following recipe has been published for making a cheap paint that looks and wears fairly well on rough or weatherbeaten surface : To a peck of lime, add before slaking three-quarters of strong rock salt brine and two pounds tallow and color with such dry earth colors as yellow ochre, raw or burnt sienna, Venetian red or umber.
Linseed Oil and Water Emulsion. - Shake i pound caustic lime and add enough soft water to make 2i gallons of lime water, dissolve pound sal soda in 2i gallons of soft water.
To size a new plastered wall for kalsomine, make a size of good pale glue, one pound ; rosin soap, one pound ; alum, two pounds. Soak the glue in cold water until soft, pour off the water that has not been taken up and pour on boiling water until all the glue hag dissolved. Slice the soap fine and dissolve in hot water, and do the same with the alum. Stir the glue and soap solutions together, then…
It is always best to first go over whitewashed walls with strong vinegar and then give one or preferably two coats of the following size: Soak one pound of good white glue over night in soft' water, pour off the cold water and dissolve the glue in hot water in the usual way. Slice one pound rosin soap fine and dissolve in water by heat. Dissolve two pounds alum in hot water. Then stir the dissolve…
The object of this method of gilding on glass is to have the gold leaf appear dead flat in some parts of ornaments or parts of letters, while the other parts are burnished, which gives very pretty effects. The chipping or embossing is accomplished by either the sand blast or by the hydrofluoric acid treatment, the former method being the most rapid, economical and surest one. To etch or chip glass…
We have plainly stated that the best chipping is done with the improved sand blast, but in giving the older methods for the benefit of those who cannot use the sand blast, we have omitted several important points. The chipped effect can be produced, as you say, by applying hot glue to ground glass, and it can also be produced in similar manner when the glass has been treated with white or French a…
A sign painter had trouble in stenciling from the colors working in under the edges of the letters and 'making rough or blurred work.
The cleaning and keeping in condition of oak parquet floors in our dwellings is known to require much trouble and work. The purpose of the cleaning is to keep them as long as possible in that condition in which they were when new. This end is more or less completely attained by the various modes of cleaning. The process still almost universally pursued is mechanical in its action, the cleaning bei…
We need hardly dwell upon the well-known fact that the first essential is and everything depends upon having the brass free from grease and dirt. Unless you are very careful on this point you will never he able to obtain good color for this class of work. The chandeliers should be taken down and taken apart and the parts boiled in a strong solution of pearlash until apparently clean, then placed i…
To clean and restore oil paintings a very good method is to cover them with wet cloths for three days, changing them twice daily, and washing them at each change. When clean and dry, rub the painting over with a soft cloth, saturated with nut oil. Another method is to clean the painting thoroughly and then glaze it over with a good mastic varnish, made as follows: Dissolve 14 ounces gum mastic in …
This, when done on a large scale, is accomplished with revolving brushes, but to do it occasionally only and in a small way, we would recommend the use of a paste made from one-half ounce oxalic acid, powdered, three ounces of powdered rotten stone and one-quarter ounce pulverized gum arabic, mixed with sweet oil.
An opinion was asked as to the merits of a weak solution of sal soda in water for cleaning the varnished parts of cars, etc., that are to be revarnished. The solution had been used with powdered pumice for rubbing and cleaning the surface, which is painted light buff and golden ocher, and this was followed up by a thorough washing with hose, water and brush. You fail to state what experience you h…
Plastered walls that have been painted can be cleaned satisfactorily, providing the paint has not begun to perish. In cleaning a painted wall it is best to have two men working together - one following the other. In this way there is not so much risk of spotting or streaking. A stretch of three or four feet is as much as should be done at a time. First dampen the wall with a sponge that has been s…
An excellent thing to advise as being most effective and least injurious to the paint, is soft water, good soap, soft brushes and cloth for doors, sills, etc., and water with a trifle of aqua ammonia for floors.
We can recommend the following paste as an excellent means for cleansing plate glass : Dissolve one pound of castile soap in three pints of water by boiling over a slow fire, stirring continuously until the soap is thoroughly dissolved.
For cleaning of violins, saturate a piece of soft silk with ordinary paraffin oil and proceed to wash the violin with it.
As paint will not stand on wet or damp metal, you must drain the water out of the pipe and let it dry.
To fill in cracks in old walls, cut out all the cracks V-shape, clean out the holes and bevel the edges same as the cracks. Make a filling of fine plaster of paris mixed with thin glue size, fill the cracks carefully and when dry, sandpaper the filling smooth and level with the wall. Go over all of the wall with sandpaper and knock off any small lumps that may be there. Wherever you find any loose…
The quickest method is to employ thin spirit lacquer, which may be made by dissolving aniline colors in alcohol, filtering the solutions and adding the same to a solution of gum sandarac in alcohol. For red, use eosine ; for green, aniline green ; for amber, a mixture of aniline yellow and Bismarck brown. Less than one ounce of these dyes will be required for coloring enough lacquer to dip twenty …
Dissolve five ounces bleached shellac in one quart of 95 per cent. grain alcohol.
Flesh color is usually made by mixing French ochre and English vermilion, but the principal requisites are that the painter has the necessary talent to paint faces.
Steel color paint is a vague term, and the successful formulas are proprietary. We know of dozens of paints that are sold as steel colors to manufacturers of machinery, and each one appears to differ somewhat from the other in depth of shade or hue, in point of fineness, in odor, in time of drying and also in finish. Some are .dead flat when dry, others have a high gloss, and others again have a s…
Many of the names given are those of the aniline type or coal-tar colors, but we will do our best to give an idea how they may be compounded from the more or less stable pigments. As pigments vary so much and differ so widely in point of strength we shall not attempt to name quantity of each required to produce them. However, as you have not mentioned whether you have water colors or oil colors in…
We assume that this refers to the copper paint used for protecting the bottoms of wooden vessels against the accumulation of sea growth and barnacles, that tends to impede the progress of the ship.
A frame hotel was painted and less than a year after was a mass of cracks and was flaking off badly. The building had been painted twice before, using white lead and linseed oil, hut this time the painter was induced to use a mixed paint. The surface was in good condition when he began to paint the last time. The trimmings were Tuscan red, and showed no cracks at all. The same paint failed on seve…
The creeping or crawling may be caused by the ground being too oily or too hard ; also, to very cold atmosphere.
Crawling of varnish may be due to various causes.
Although but one manufacturer can use the word "creosote" in connection with shingle stains, as he has the name protected by letters patent, this, however, will not prevent others from making a stain with creosote as the vehicle, under another name. The preparation of such stain is very simple, and requires but little experimenting, but some knowledge in the selection of pigments is necessary. Ani…
Creosote stains for shingles have come in such high favor through the belief that they have highly preservative properties, preventing dry rot in the wood and also from the theory that creosote stains are antiseptic and do not affect the water that in many localities is collected in cisterns from roofs of houses and barns, while there is a general idea that paint acts injuriously upon water so col…
A painter undertook to paint the front of a dwelling having a southern exposure; the surface being old plaster in good condition, never before painted. The contract was for one coat of boiled oil and two coats of paint of a doe brown tint. Good kettle boiled oil was used for priming, and two days were allowed for drying. Pure white lead tinted with umber was used for the second coat. This was give…
In the summer, the outside of a frame house that had previously been painted a salmon color, was painted pea green, using white lead tinted with Imperial green in oil, thinned with boiled oil and turpentine. Four months later the paint could be rubbed off with the hand, except in places where the sun did not strike it. We believe that, in the first place, the exposed portions of the old painted su…
By referring to No. 344 you will find a paragraph headed, "Formula for Making Oil Wood Stains," in which, among others, you will find the formula desired.
To each gallon of the oil add three ounces chloride of lime; put the mixture in a wooden cask and while stirring violently add one ounce of muriatic acid to each gallon.
The selected grades or brands of French ocher are highly valued, because of their uniform bright yellow color, which, without the addition of chrome, give a natural chrome yellow tone, or at least the nearest approach given by earth colors. Neither this tone nor color, nor the fine, smooth working properties of the selected French ocher has yet been attained by American ochers, at least not in app…
Caoutchouc, or Para rubber, can be dissolved in disulphide of carbon, with coal tar benzol or with spirits of turpentine, and when the solution is liquid enough it will mix readily with oil. The rubber is cut into thin strips, put into a suitable tightly closing vessel and the solvent poured over it, so that the strips are fully covered, allowed to stand in a warm place and shaken frequently. When…
While an excess of turpentine has no effect whatever on white lead directly, it is self-evident that as turpentine has no binding properties it will tend to shorten the life of outside paint in proportion to its use in the composition of such paint.
A thin solution of beeswax in spirits of turpentine rubbed over linoleum will brighten its appearance.
Unless you use quite a great deal of leather top dressing we should advise you to purchase it ready made, because it will not pay you to set your shop or house on fire, and the melting of asphaltum is quite a risky piece of business for a novice in the art.
One pound yellow beeswax dissolved in one gallon turpentine makes a polish for linoleum cloth.