The Falls City tribune., 1910-10-28

requirements except that it VII not
carry much pigment. In a paint
thiued with a large proportion of
gasoline the pigment is liable to
grain" and viii roll up under the
brush. 1t cannot be used in large
quantities like tarpentine can. \
larger proportion of oil is necessary.
This trouble car be overcome Tome
what by using part t%urpentine and
part gasoline. Paint containing gas
oline instead of turpentine does
not work as smooth and does not
leave as smooth a job because it
eyaporates too quickly but aside from
these faults it isn't a bad thinner.
1t makes a perfect solution with oil
and does not injure the paint or eff
feet colors. After the job is com
pleted it is just as permanent as if
|turpentine had been used. We must
keep in mind that these thinners do
not remain in the paint. They eyap-
crate and leave the paint before the
oil film hardens. They must do that
81 tbo,y oro ,no,itobIo That ic why
cheap thinners do not hurt the paint
after it is dry.
For years painters have used ker-
osine surreptitiously for thinning. Of
course they would not admit that they
ever did it, but it has been done and
largely done. KEROSENE and gasoline
are not far apart in price but they
are not alike. Gasoline e~vaporates to
rapidly and kerosine too slowly. Gas
oline will not carry much pigment,
kerosine will carry almost as much
as %turpentine.' KEROSENE works bet
ter than gasoline and it makes a per-
feet solution with linseed oil.
KEROSENE should not be used in
paint. A very little perhaps on a
cheap inside job might not do any
harm but it is a detriment when
used in much quantity and in n
quantity on an outside job. 1t is
not put into any mixed paint that is
sold to dealers, but it does go into
some of the cheap mixed paints that
are sold to painters and into some
of the mail order paints. If it eap-
pears on the printed analysis it is
under the name of hydrocarbon oil
or mineral oil.
As l have already said u%nscrupu-
lous painters have used it to scamp"
their paint ON contract jobs when
they furnished the material. 1t is a
good thing for this purpose because
it carries pigment we'll a nd works
smoothly. 1t isn't a good thing for
the paint.
There is water in almost all, yes
all, the mixed paints. 1t can not
be called a thinner. 1t does not
meet ANY of the indications. 1t
does not make a solution with lin
seed oil, it does not evaporate fast
enough, it does not carry pigment
well and it does injure the paint.
The mixed paints contain it in vary
ing proportions from 112 per cent up
to twenty-four per cent, in the case
or mail order paints, according to the
Dakota paint commission. No WON
der mail order paint can be sold
cheap if it is one fourth water,
This same commission allows one
and one half per cent of water in
mixed paint as an accidental i'm
purity, but must be considered simply
as an adulterant. One fourth of one
per cent would be enough to allow
for accidental impurity and therefore
more than that must be intentional
adulteration. Surely twenty four per
cen could only be intentional. Per-
haps two or ever three percent is
not a very serious matter and mixed
paint need not be abandoned be-
cause of that, but if you want to
cheaper you paint "a per cent bet
ter put the water in yourself instead
of buvino II and pouipo frpiobt on If