"Jim" myplace@home wrote:

This year I bought these plastic jugs of Thompsons water seal (It
usually comes in tins)...I figured that they just changed their
packaging...it says its the same stuff on the jug, but when putting this
stuff on it dosen't go on like the oil which brings out the wood grain..it
is rather like a yellow milky substance that does nothing for the wood
grain...I ony did a few sq feet and shut it down as I don"t want to have to
scrub the entire deck like I had to years ago...
Has anyone used this product that would care to comment?

It sounds like they've reformulated to use a water base instead of a solvent
base. Do you live in California? There are some really goofy regs from CARB that
drive companies to lower VOCs. Read the label carefully and see if it says
"water based" or something similar.