Hot oil

Thanks for this! I hadn’t considered heating my BLO.

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whoa! sure beats burning down the house! i like it! and it doesn’t have to be hot hot- just warm. i love the smell of warm linseed oil in the morning.

Interesting article there cr1.
He says he did 2 tests – the dowel and the “real life”, but doesn’t really seem to say what he thought of the “real life” results.
The dowel test is, surely, about capillary action and, given enough time, I’d have thought oil at all temperatures would get to the same(ish) “height”. In real life we’re looking at how much will soak through by gravity in a small-ish amount of time?

I’m not one to argue with conventional wisdom (well, I am, but not here). As I understand it you usually “thin” the first coat to make the fluid less viscous and therefore penetrate more. Heating does the same thing – though how long it stays warm on the new wood can’t be very long.

But, as he says at the end, if it works for you then do it.

I’d be very interested in what other people’s experience with this is.

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Re: polymerization

Which is a good thing, right?
But I guess it also means it’s a good idea to only heat up small quantities (preferably only what you’ll be using) at a time?

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