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   mlbfreestyle | Nov 18, 2004 05:51pm | #1

   I have heard rumors as well but nothing definitive.  I did read a report I found on the web a few months ago about a pilot study wherein waterborne finishes were used on a large number of homes and compared to oil-based finishes.  The thrust of this study (govt funded) was to compare the total amount of "pollution" over the life-cycle of the finishes.

   The oil based finishes lasted longer and the water borne were less-polluting by nature.  Of course, because the water borne did not last a long, they had to be re-applied sooner.

   I don't recall just how the two stacked up in the final analysis though.

   Having done a lot of trim painting in my new home, I am thouroughly convinced that a high grade oil based paint is hard to beat.  I use Benjamin Moore satin impervo.  I think there needs to be some education on just how to use these products to avoid un-necessary loss/evaporation of solvent.  The methods I use result in very little consumption of solvent compared to the amount of paint applied.

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   LeeGrindinger | Nov 18, 2004 09:49pm | #2

   Free radicals are the issue so is it any wonder that California is the hotbed of this rumor? Hah, hah, ha...

   Actually, some solvents release free radicals. Free radicals attach to oxygen to form ozone and herin lies the issue. The good news is that few solvents actually contain free radicals and solvent based finishes can be formulated without them.

   So, assuming no one goes overboard in some sort of panic solvent based finishes will remain available in the forseeable future. The rumor you heard is quite dated.

   Lee

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   RogerL | Nov 18, 2004 11:03pm | #3

   Lee:

   Thanks for the info......don't want to free those radicals

    

   Roger

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   creekwood | Nov 19, 2004 12:22am | #4

   Lee, on another note, have you heard anything on Jon Arno? I know you once said you knew he was ill. Any word yet?

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   forestgirl | Nov 19, 2004 03:07am | #5

   I like my free radicals in the form of BBQ chicken or, better yet, steak!forestgirl -- you can take the girl out of the forest, but you can't take the forest out of the girl ;-)Another proud member of the  "I Rocked With ToolDoc Club" .... :>) 

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   Ribeye | Nov 19, 2004 08:51am | #6

   My free radicals all went underground way back in the 1970s.

    --Steve

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   Penury is the Mother of Invention