Hello,
Does anybody have experience with using Penetrol, made by Flood, on their table saw, jointer, ect. to prevent rust? From what I can tell, it is marketed under three product names, but they all seem the same. Supposedly available at Home Depot and Ace Hardware.
Roy Fek wrote: [snip]
Noooo... if you want to protect a metal object from the elements, Penetrol will behave like paint. In that regard it works well. It is not slippery by no stretch of the imagination, so on a table-saw top, it would be a bad choice. It is basically triple distilled linseed oil, give or take. It behaves very much like linseed oil. (Careful with spontaneous combustion when discarding Penetrol-soaked rags.)
I just took a peek at a can of Penetrol, and the small spilled droplets are hard. A fingernail won't budge them.
The guys here like Johnsson Paste wax. (Trewax paste wax is also guaranteed silicon free.)
Does Penetrol have a bunch of linseed oil in it?
What post?
My news service dropped many posts this week, so I have many incomplete threads. It was up and down for days.
If I read it, would I have asked?
Sorry! Multi-tasking!
I missed the "triple-distilled"...
Robatoy wrote: > Roy Fek wrote: > [snip] >> I read else where that it works very well and also keeps surfaces >> smooth and some what slippery. >
Evidently Pentrol is a good Flood product for the industrial market.
The products they offer for the marine market SUCKS.
Using nothing at all creates less follow up work.
Lew
I didn't see that in any of the MSDSs.
Suspected it was, though, on that basis when I was looking at a can at the store 20 minutes ago. Decided to save my $8.95 and improve my brush technique. Thought it might be useful for cutting the alkyd enamel I'm putting on a bookcase, where linseed would make the paint too soft.
This is an interesting thread, apparently completely different from anything I know. :-)
In a previous life, I owned and maintained several boats (only sailing craft). I had a 34' sloop that needed the topsides painted. It was a fiberglass boat and I couldn't afford a urethane paint job by a yard. I decided to paint the topsides (the hull above the waterline, not the decks) using a Woolsey alkyd enamel. Its sheen was superior to gel coat. I check with an old boat painter to find out how they achieved brushed on paint jobs with no brush marks. I was told to add a brushing agent to allow the paint to level before it started to dry. The brushing agent was Penetrol. Painting with vertical brush strokes and using penetrol, a brush stroke free paint job was achieved.
I later used it while building houses when painting interior wood trim. We used oil based enamel and I used the penetrol.
Now you fellows are talking about using it to prevent rust. I use Johnson Wax (Lowe's sells it) to keep my tools from rusting. Not only are the cast iron surfaces clean, the wood slides across them with ease. I typically wax any tool I used over the week end late on Sunday.
OBTW, the penetrol I am familiar with is not paint and will not act as paint. It is an additive to be put in paint. Apparently, Flood has developed new products and used the name penetrol.
Father Haskell wrote: [snipped for brevity]
It works like a dream in giving alkyds a bit of 'leg'. Just a little dab will do ya. I wouldn't brush an alkyd without a bit of it. It lays down so nicely... also nothing but a Purdy brush will do. Penetrol works nicely as a wood finish, straight out of the can...especially for out-door use.
Lowell Holmes wrote: [snipped for brevity]
Same stuff. Penetrol. It isn't paint, it's an additive. It dries on its own though.
Lew -
I spoke to the Flood Tech people - re: the great price difference between the 'home' and 'Marine' versions. The only difference is the 'label on the can'.
I have a can of the stuff - from the local 'Home Center'. While I've read comments about it's use on Gelcoat {and the resultant horror stories}, I've never heard about it's 'long-term rust preventative' properties.
A cautionary note about their 'water-based' version . . . DO NOT use it with GLOSS paints. For some reason it 'flattens' the gloss to a very finely 'pebbled Satin' appearance. Drove me absolutely nuts - till I finally figured it out !!
Regards, Ron
Having personally been to the Flood Company farm in Hudson, Ohio, and talked to them, doesn't surprise me.
My comment was directed specifically aimed at Deks Olje, not Penetrol.
Lew
Just adding a fly to the Penetrol here. It was recommended to me on a WW forum that Penetrol alone makes a good, natural finish for outdoor furniture. I haven't tried it and will proably go with one of Cabot's natural oil finishes on my cherry swing (in progress).
Olympic Maximum is also a fantastic outdoor oil finish. I've been extremely pleased with it's defense of New England weather. Maximum is good enough that I don't even bother to bring the stuff in for the winter. I first learned of it from a local outdoor furniture manufacturer:
It's all he uses on his unpainted furniture and pergolas that he's sold for years and years.
What do you mean by vertical strokes? Across grain? The paint (with 25% Penetrol) seems to lay smoother if I tip it off wrong way, for some odd reason.
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