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In Reply to: Are you sure about that? posted by Joe Blow on March 31, 2003 at 12:55:44:
I think it's more like a peanut allergy, which I don't have, but pure tung oil bothers me for some reason. It might have something to do with the stint I did working for Chemlawn in my youth. After that I found I had a lower tolerance to all kinds of things. I only mentioned it as I had heard a small percentage of other people have been bothered by tung oil but in their case they might have been using the adulterated kind you mention. It just merited mentioning.I also said it because as you say the pure stuff is hard for the layman to get, and they might get something they think is it and is not.
Yes, most boiled linseed oils have metallic dryers but I have known people in the trade who have used it for years (and still do) and they are very old and have shown no side effects from it. The same can be said from eating off of non stick teflon pans for that matter. I don't think anyone needs to get a canary before they start oiling anything with it :)
I just think linseed oil does a very adequate job at it's price point. Certainly tung oil is good, but it ought to be for what it costs. The pure stuff is close to $50 a gallon as well, which is fairly steep to say the least.
But should anyone reading this think to use raw linseed oil instead, don't. It won't dry for a hell of a long time, and when it does it gets very tacky.
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