Re: [ATM] Varathane

[Dave Smith <smithersscope@yahoo.com>]

Hi Richard,
Is your Varathane, by chance, made by MinWax?
Last year I bought some nude kitchen chairs and MinWax
polyurethane. The 6 chairs occupied my garage for a
full week waiting for the first coat of MinWax "stuff"
to dry. They never did. I will NEVER by MinWax
urethane again.
I stripped them down and bought "Varathane" brand
polyurethane and put 3 coats on without any subsequent
issues.

Just my two bits.

Dave

--- Richard Schwartz <richard1941@gmail.com> wrote:

> I was trying to make a nice looking telescope tube
> for my sister's living
> room scope (overlooking Lake Tahoe).   I made it of
> doorskin.  I sanded the
> surface and filled it with a sealer.   Then I
> applied two coats of an
> oil-based stain.   After drying for a couple days,
> and buffing with steel
> wool, it looked GREAT!!!   Alas, I then applied
> varathane interior gloss
> urethane.
> 
> The weather was cool and the next day the varathane
> was still tacky, so I
> turned up the heat in my place to 80 degF, and
> waited a few more days.  The
> varathane is still tacky.   Instructions on the can
> say to sand between
> coats, but I know that if I do this the sandpaper
> will be gunked up after
> just a few strokes.
> 
> What do do?  Does varathane cure under ultraviolet
> light?   I don't want to
> strip the finish off if there is another way to do
> it.  Perhaps sanding with
> wet-dry sandpaper and some kind of solvent?
> 
> Any wood workers out there?
> 
> . . . Richard
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