On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 15:58:43 +0100, The3rd Earl Of Derby
wrote:

Possible there is water/condensation remains have got into the wood
behind
the old paint, hence it going tacky.

It has of course occurred to you that the tackiness is only evident
because objects have put onto the shelf and the partly-cured paint has for
that reason revealed a tacky nature? The only reason that water can
interfere with the curing of an oxidatively crosslinking paint is by
immersion, which physically debars the oxygen.

Puts paid to your rather over zealous assumption.

Three years in the industry of formulating paints, adhesives and the like,
I would describe as experience rather than assumption.

John Schmitt

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