water vs alcohol

Re: Depends

Bill Blasic

With TransTint I use Acetone as the carrier. It carries the dye deep and when I no longer smell it the dye is set.

Re: water vs alcohol

John in NM

Alcohol is my preference. I may try acetone, since what Bill said above makes some sense. I also have successfully mixed a little into oil by mixing with acetone first. Too much and the oil doesn't cure well - I think that's the acetone rather than the dye.

I use it for refinishing as well, and then I put it in lacquer thinner since that tends to "bite" any residual finish in the wood - usually I'm not going down to bare wood just stripping off old film finish that needs renewing and then tweaking the color coat underneath.

How do you apply?

Bill Tindall, E.Tn.

I can not imagine spraying acetone. The droplets will be dry before they hit the wood. Maybe this is desirable? The potential fire hazard needs to be considered in choosing an application location. In fact I am not understanding any advantage of using such a fast evaporating solvent.

Water is trivial to be rid of after application. Every shop should have on hand a hair drier. I used mine regularly. It will make quick work of drying after application.

I think application choice- spray, brush, pad- needs to be settled before thinking about what solvent is best.

I use alcohol

Thomas Skaggs, Foothills of Mount Level

I like alcohol over water as it does not raise the grain as much and dries faster.

T.

thanks everyone for great advise

Michael van pelt

thanks!

Re: water vs alcohol

JL

A long while ago, I used a lot of reagent grade isopropyl alcohol in the lab for extractions. I had to concentrate the material I extracted - and ended up w/ a lot of distilled isopropyl alcohol that I couldn't reuse.

To make a long story short - I have a large five gallon jug of it. It is on the order of 99% pure. It turns out to be a reasonable vehicle for Transtint and other alcohol soluble dyes.

You don't have to worry about the grain and it works reasonably well. YMMV.

Re: Depends

Bill Blasic

I have no trouble spraying TransTint with Acetone with an airbrush but I also paint and drizzle.

Re: I use alcohol

Wood3rz

I do the alcohol over water too