Our local club (Woodturners of St. Louis) buys 55 gal drums. We have a pump in the drum, you
bring your own jugs and the cost is around $5.00 or $6.00/gal bought that way, including
truck shipping. Certainly somebody in your group has a business with a loading dock and the
place to store it.

BTW, get it with antifreeze unless you are somewhere south.

Bill

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Is there a cheap alternative to Anchorseal?

I have tried using old leftover latex paint.
Sometimes it works -- sometimes not.

Does anyone have a homemade or cheap store bought alternative to
Anchorseal?

What for? If you're trying to maintain wood in large chunks, tough to beat
it, and even tougher to get consistent results unless you trim areas which
will stress the block in drying.

Newsprint or a paper bag, if you're talking a rough bowl. Objective there
is to control the drying of the outside while interior is still feeding
moisture. Tenting in newsprint or bagging _after_ as much water as can be
thrown by the lathe has disappeared from the surface is a good method.

PVA glue brushed on ends of a rough spindle candidate, though there the
price nod probably goes to the wax. A little bit goes a long way when you
turn box or goblet blanks and such. If you have no spouse and a blender,
you can try some on your own with a low-sudsing surfactant and wax blended
to a fair-thee-well with water to suspend it.