Day 115, 11/26,11/27/,11/28, Main cabin wood Varnishing in progress(3 consiquent days). 6 + 1.5 + 2 hours

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Interior work 



Main cabin varnishing . Temperature dropped a lot, so running small heater on the floor and and 20" fan blowing air through front hatch.

First and second layer

1 hour scuffing, 1 hour cleaning, 1:30 painting (varnishing), 6 hours timeout,1:30 painting.

2 layers done, 4 coming. Photos will be after all done.  


Third layer

Monday: one more layer done of gloss Gleam.

Next will be satin on most surfaces. I have too much busy look.





Forth layer

Satin varnish now. after 3 layers of gloss varnish all looks very rich, but too busy for eyes.

Actually what happened, my gleam 2.0 originally was Satin version, but all flattening agent settled on the bottom of the can, and i did not realize that I have satin type until read it on the can.  I used gloss (top part) of varnish for first 3 layers and used about 1/3 of gallon from the can. It means if i just mix varnish with settled flattening agent  back to liquid I will have it "overdosed".

I did a trick, carefully took almost all liquid from the can, mixed left in the can flattening agent with little of liquid varnish I left there, took half of flattening agent reached goo out of can.then added half of can liquid (gloss) varnish and steered it.  

As result I have half of gallon satin gleam varnish, 200-300ml gloss Gleam, and flattening agent enough to "flat" another half gallon. ;-)

Pictures after fourth layer.











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