boiled linseed oil
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Boiled Linseed Oil - BLO
Many brands of boiled linseed oil now contain so little catalyst that they might as well be raw linseed oil.
- Japan drier
- This is mixture of one or more catalysts with a solvent. Cobalt lineate, lead, manganese, iron and zinc catalysts may be used. There is no single recipe. These catalysts speed polymerization and hardening of the oil.
- MTO
- Mineral Turpentine Oil, a thinner
- BLO
- Boiled Linseed Oil
- DBLO
- Double Boiled Linseed Oil
- napthenic acid salts (naphthenates)
- common sources of metal ion catalysts for drying agents (Japan drier). Common sources may contain one or more of the following metals: magnesium, calcium, barium, cobalt, copper, lead, manganese, nickel, vandyl, and zinc.
spontaneous combustion experiment
Pile of paper towels soaked in BLO then drained and then left to sit in a stainlless steel salad bowl.
# time, temp celsius 3:25, 21.8 3:28, 22.0 3:42, 22.3 3:51, 22.2 4:31, 22.1 4:42, 22.6 4:48, 23.1 5:09, 25.4 5:20, 26.9 6:01, 44.0 6:03, 45.8 6:04, 45.6 6:06, 49.5 6:07, 51.3 6:15, 67.3 6:24, 112.8 6:27, 141.0 6:28, 154.4 # illegible data 6:33, 203.0 6:34, 210.0 # experiment was then soaked in water.