Rescuing Danish Oil that's starting to polymerize in its bottles?

[Jon Rista]

The Coleman fuel he’s talking about is in a pour can. Not the compressed gas. It’s used for lanterns and camp stoves.

Cans of naphtha can be found in the paint section. Lighter fluid for Zippo lighters is naphtha, not to be confused with charcoal lighter fluid.

I use it for cleaning greasy surfaces.

Well, I guess we don't have the red and silver Coleman fuel cans here in Colorado. At least, I've not found them at any of the stores near where I live. I have found the green pressurized propane canisters. We have DNA, which is sold as a fuel, and it can only be sold as a fuel as otherwise it would fall under the various restrictions on VOCs here in Colorado. I guess, if the Coleman fuel is naphtha, then that may be why its not available. It seems that Naphtha and Xylene were at the top of the list of VOCs Colorado wanted to ban...

 

[Jon Rista]

FWIW, here is the one non-junk item I finished with this going-bad danish:



It was harder to deal with the soak time and wipeoff, but, in the end, this satin sheen, was something I hadn't really been able to get before. Such was the motivation of finding a way to preserve the stuff, at least for a little while, instead of just tossing it...

 

[Dave Landers]

Well, I guess we don't have the red and silver Coleman fuel cans here in Colorado

My Ace here in Estes has it. And you can get it at any reasonable sporting goods store like Sheels etc.

 

[Jon Rista]

My Ace here in Estes has it. And you can get it at any reasonable sporting goods store like Sheels etc.

I'll see if I can expand my search. There is another ace 15-20 minutes away I can check. None of the walmarts or grocery stores seem to have it.

 

[Webb Willmott]

Paint store like Sherwin Williams should have it.

 

[Graham Dolby]

Yeah, that's what I've done with a new can. I have been using stop loss bags for about two years here. I bought this can before I started using the bags, and at teh time, I redistributed it into smaller bottles, that would be used up in a single project at a time (they are very small bottles with little yorker caps, few ounces each.) This made it easy to use up the oil in a bottle on each piece, and I was working through them for a while. But I've had a rocky road with my woodturning, there are times I can turn, then I have these lulls due to life, and I don't turn for a while. This stuff just happened to be from before I started using stop-loss bags, and it was kind of an expensive can (IIRC, 1gal, I think it was $58, then plus tax), not the normal 1-quart cans.

The caps with Stop Loss bags are just not strong enough and every cap has split on the 4 bags I have. So I cut a shallow groove near the open end of the cap, bind with fine wire and then coat with epoxy. I contacted the inventor and his explanation for the flimsy caps was reasonable, so I doubt he'll change the specs.

 

[Webb Willmott]

Did you follow the directions and put some wax on the threads to prevent sticking and not tighten more than finger tight?

 

[Graham Dolby]

Certainly finger tight. Not always renewing the wax though.