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Bob Engelhardt
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Painting Metal Doors
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... oil base dries by oxidation of oils, not by
evaporation unless you use a thinner or extender. Right? ...
Kind of right. Oil paint has a volatile "vehicle", I think they call
it, which does evaporate. But it also has a component which reacts with
oxygen (polymerizes, I think), to "set" (become hard). Bob
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