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Kim Whitmyre

27/08/2003 7:50 AM

McCloskey's phenolic spar varnish repair ?

Folks,

I offered to take a look a large oak door (6 panel with ornate molding
framing the panels) that someone (the owner) had damaged by trying to
remove the adhesive from left over tape. . .Eek! What we have here is
about 4-5 2-3" areas with absolutely no finish on them.

On urethane varnish, I would simply say unequivocably strip the varnish
and do it over again. But doing a little reading, McCloskey's Spar is a
phenolic varnish, so I have a little question: is it possible to spot
repair such phenolic varnish with any success?

Kim


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Traves W. Coppock

in reply to Kim Whitmyre on 27/08/2003 7:50 AM

27/08/2003 3:22 PM

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:50:12 -0700, Kim Whitmyre
<[email protected]> Crawled out of the shop and said. . .:

>Folks,
>
>I offered to take a look a large oak door (6 panel with ornate molding
>framing the panels) that someone (the owner) had damaged by trying to
>remove the adhesive from left over tape. . .Eek! What we have here is
>about 4-5 2-3" areas with absolutely no finish on them.
>
>On urethane varnish, I would simply say unequivocably strip the varnish
>and do it over again. But doing a little reading, McCloskey's Spar is a
>phenolic varnish, so I have a little question: is it possible to spot
>repair such phenolic varnish with any success?
>
>Kim


oof,,,good luck with this one Kim, i know they came to the right
person, but i know how these "sure i can do that" projects can
escalate

Traves

jJ

[email protected] (JLucas ILS)

in reply to Kim Whitmyre on 27/08/2003 7:50 AM

27/08/2003 3:31 PM

Kim,
It is a clear finish so I suggest you not strip but feather back an inch or
so and lay in new coats. With 220 to 400 sanding between you should be able to
get perfect match. One more thing, you might want to coat whole door for last
coat.

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Andy Dingley

in reply to Kim Whitmyre on 27/08/2003 7:50 AM

27/08/2003 6:03 PM

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 07:50:12 -0700, Kim Whitmyre
<[email protected]> wrote:

>McCloskey's Spar is a phenolic varnish,

I'm on the wrong continent for this stuff, but isn't a "phenolic"
(usually a rather brittle, if hard, resin) "spar varnish" (a flexible
varnish for the flexing parts of ships) rather an oxymoron ?


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