David Hendley on fri 18 feb 00
As I understand it, what you want is propylene glycol.
That is the main ingredient in non-toxic (to pets)
antifreeze. Regular, toxic antifreeze is not the same
and will not work.
In some places, I think the non-toxic is the only kind
for sale. Around here, it's an extra buck or two a gallon.
Read the fine print and you will find that propylene glycol
is used in all kind of processed food products.
When I worked in the ice cream factory, we added it to
the mix. It was pretty disgusting; it looked and felt like
you were pouring in motor oil!
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David Hendley
Maydelle, Texas
hendley@tyler.net
http://www.farmpots.com/
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From: John Rodgers
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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: Glaze Extender?
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This may work becasue antifreeze has a wetting agent in it. Probably
anything
else with a wetting agent or detergent in it would work. Don't confuse
detergent with soap or washing detergent. A detergent generally has no
foaming action at all. Foaming agents are added to the detergent to make the
foam. While the foaming/sudsing may help some, it is mostly to aid sales,
not
cleaning. Because the public feels like a soap product isn't doing the job
without sudsing, companies add that agent to the mix. The detergent is the
real worker.
Amway used to sell a wetting agent/detergent that worked. Don't know if they
still do or not. You can buy a product called Redline Water Wetter from some
automotive stores. It is a wetting agent that you ad to you auto engine
coolant to make coolant have better contact with the various parts of the
engine to pick up heat and better contact with the radiator parts to better
transfer heat away from the coolant through the radiator material to the
moving air for better cooling. Should work fine in a glaze.
I haven't tried either antifreeze or water wetter in a glaze but the concept
seems sound enough to me.
John Rodgers
Birmingham, AL
Chris Cantello wrote:
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> Hi there the best way I've hard of to extend a glaze is to add some ante
> freeze to it. A tec. at mason stain co. once told me that I should make a
> mix of 50% ante freeze and 50% H2o and add that to the dry glaze. This
> makes the glaze paint over any surface better.Good Luck :)
ferenc jakab on sat 19 feb 00
Regular antifreeze has ethylene glycol. A number of years ago a Spanish
entrepreneur added ethylene glycol based antifreeze to his low grade olive
oil so that it would look like extra virgin olive oil (green). He poisoned a
lot of people and raised unnecessary fear of Spanish olive oil.
Feri
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