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large quantities of oil

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Anyone know where I can purchase 10 gallons of teak oil. I have been turning spalted pine lately and want to submerge them in the oil. I have applied 6 coats and they continue to take it in. I thought I might submerge them like Ron Kent does. I choose teak oil because it was handy and looked good on the first one.
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Matt
 
I suppose that you could contact Watco about availability in large containers -- otherwise it would be expensive to get 40 quart size cans. You could just make your own version, I suppose. It is mostly raw linseed oil, resin, mineral spirits, and naptha. It might possibly contain some tung oil. Don't let the name lead you astray -- Teak Oil is made for oiling teak and other hard woods -- it is NOT an extractive from teak wood.

Bill
 
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Putting your bowl inside a stainless steel bowl will allow you full contact soak with much less oil than a cylindrical container. Especially if you put a weighted but empty bowl inside it.

Used to do PEG that way.
 
thanks

Thanks for the info. I am going to order a few gallons to try this week and the stainless bowl idea sounds like a winner.
Matt
 
Depending on how close your piece is in shape to the bowl, you may get by with a gallon or less. Outer bowl, your bowl inside with some liquid and a weighted stainless bowl inside that to take up slack, then fill the outer bowl until yours is under oil.

Another alternative, if you can get them, is marbles. Put your piece in the container, use marbles to fill the voids, so as to require less solution. Same way folks exclude free air from containers of finish.
 
The mix I use for submursion is

2-gallon unscented mineral spirits (unscented because I don't like the smell of the regular)

1-gallon Boiled Linseed Oil

1-quart McCloskeys gloss spar varnish. Use any alkyd varnish if available. I don't use a polyurethane resin varnish because it doesn't soak into the wood as well.

I sometimes add 1/2 pint of Japan Dryer if it is cold in the shop.

It is every bit as good as Watco and 1/3 the price.

It is an excellent wood preserver for decks when it gets old.
 
Oil Soak

Soaking your turning in finishing oil may be a good idea. If I were to do it, I would put the bowl (etc) in a heavy-duty plastic bag (sitting in a container), pour in the oil to cover the wood plus, a bit, and seal the bag. It will take less oil to cover the wood when in a bag.
 
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