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Can Someone Help me out ( LDD Bowl Drying issues )

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Glen Lucas puts something on his first turning of bowls that appears to look like Gesso and then stacks them for drying with little other than sticks between the stacked blanks. I have not got even a tiny clue what he uses.

He explained it in Kansas City. As he tried to describe this British product, the room's consensus is that the U.S. version of this is Elmer's School Glue. I've started doing this myself. I was using wax on my rough-turned bowls. Now, I just use a 50% diluted mix of Elmer's that I buy in gallon jugs (for very little on Amazon). It's easy and seems to seal well. Much less work than melting wax and burning the daylights out of myself.
 
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He explained it in Kansas City. As he tried to describe this British product, the room's consensus is that the U.S. version of this is Elmer's School Glue. I've started doing this myself. I was using wax on my rough-turned bowls. Now, I just use a 50% diluted mix of Elmer's that I buy in gallon jugs (for very little on Amazon). It's easy and seems to seal well. Much less work than melting wax and burning the daylights out of myself.

WHITE GLUE?? WOW~!!! Cheap white polyvinyl glue. Thanks for that.
 
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Well if you can figure out how to get an emulsion of propylene glycol and paraffin wax and a little mineral oil you can make your own Anchorseal from the cheap components. Any chemists in the room? Children in the chemical vocations. Ask them.
 

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Well if you can figure out how to get an emulsion of propylene glycol and paraffin wax and a little mineral oil you can make your own Anchorseal from the cheap components. Any chemists in the room? Children in the chemical vocations. Ask them.

The emulsion consists only of water and paraffin wax. It's probably not something that can be done in the average kitchen. :D The least messy way might be if you could get a surplus homogenizer that would pressurize the mixture of hot water and melted wax to about 2500 - 3500 PSI and force that through a tiny orifice then that would help to break the long molecular chains and attach water molecules to the wax molecules. OK, maybe not very practical for a DIY project. Another possible way would be to find a suitable surfactant. I can imagine this one getting out of hand in a hurry ... visualize putting bubble bath in a blender ... cancel that visualization ... not good.

You can get cold climate formulations with a small amount of either methanol or propylene glycol antifreeze agents. It rarely freezes in this part of the country so it really isn't needed, but I'm not certain which one my club buys in bulk.
 
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