Can you thin varnish with varnih

[roll cast]

Is it possible to thin a bottle of thick black varnish using an old bottle of very thin and sightly clouded bottle of clear without affecting the black colouring?


Thanks
AL

[BRUCE1]

Originally Posted by roll cast

Is it possible to thin a bottle of thick black varnish using an old bottle of very thin and sightly clouded bottle of clear without affecting the black colouring?


Thanks
AL

if its nail varnish .get some nail polish remover and use that ,if not you will probably want pure acetone for normal varnish .........

[dabhoy]

Go on AL buy another bottle

[arkle]

Take a look in your local £1 or equiv. shop. Don't use nail varnish thinners as it has "conditioning oils" in it & will not work as well as acetone or other pure similarly based thinners.

[andy macbog]

Hiya,

You can get thinners made by Veniards for about £1 (or so!). Handy to have around as my bottles of varnish always thicken before they are used up. Also handy (I have found) to have a couple of viscosities of varnish, but then I am a fussy bu**er! The pigmentation will probably not be diluted significantly if you use the other varnish as a thinner but it will probably not have too much of an impact on the visocisty because you are adding only a very small amount of additional thinners.

Andy