Envirotex

[Shane Watson]

Anyone have much experience with this stuff? Has anyone tried to cut & polish it after finishing...Your thoughts??

[soundman]

The name should ring a bell but Access speed to long term memory is a little slow

perhaps a little detail about the product.

[DavidG]

To find out what it is:-
See http://www.eti-usa.com/consum/envtex/envlite.htm

[soundman]

AHH as i suspected pouring lacer.
Ive played with it under another name.
I ve sanded it but never tried to polish it.

I would expect that because it is an epoxy.
It probably would not polish well as this sort of stuff iI believe s realy quite soft in comparison to most other timber finishes.

Ive got some dodgy bits under the bench I might give it a rubb.

Sort of not the point realy, I supose. Its supposed to do it all its self

Interesting experiment though.

cheers

[Shane Watson]

Soundman, yeah my thoughts exactly. But this stuff seems fairly hard. Why I am asking this is my mother has taken up somewhat of a hobby with this stuff and her problem is dust settling on the finish before its tacted off. Other than that she is 100% with the finish achieved. I was up there over easter and had limited success with cutting & polishing but it was only limited cause my good products were down here in Brisi not up there in Mky. I had mum go to paint shop yesterday to give her some advice on technique and products etc but they were no help either. Think they got scared cause it wasn't an automotive product, hahah.. Anyway I have pointed her to the swansdown polish mop that Neil stocks and hopefully that might help with the right cutting compounds..
Cheers..

[Baz]

Shane if your mum is having problems with dust I would assume what she is doing would be fairly small, if so she could put a cardbord box over it while it cured.
Cheers
Barry

[sandman]

Hi Shane, I have used this gear on my solid Jarrah bar tops & it's testing to use at first but the end result is brilliant!
When I did my bar tops, to stop dust particles settling on to wet finish, I masked a very large plastic bag directly above and down sides of wet finsh( obviously not touching).
Result- Not one spec of dust! Contact your local bedding store to "scab" an empty bed bag and cut it along the seam for one big bit of plastic!
** Just a small note about the application of envirotex- When spread it will vent tiny air bubbles to surface and they must be removed with Co2. Use a small butane torch or similar to acheive this. Very important to get it right first time as it is a mongrel to sand off!!!!

Good luck ,
Regards Sandman.

[soundman]

Ive played with a similar product
To prevent dust settling on the items. As soon as I am happy that the coverage is even and all the bubles are gone I immediately cover the item with a CLEEEEEN box or buscuit tin. And don't disturb till morning.
For the small items I have done this works fine

Solve the problem at source!!

[soundman]

Oh one more thing.
Make sure that you have adequate ventilation when using any epoxy.

In the short term it can give you a roaring headache.

In the long term It kills brain cells by the bucket.

Telecom linies new about this years ago.