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                        Future drying times...

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                        styrene
                        • Member since
                          May 2003
                        • From: The flat lands of the Southeast
                        Posted by styrene on Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:31 PM
                        Swanny,
                        Thanks. Pretty much cleared things up. I can just see the lawsuit now: I sue SCJ because I didn't get first place at the Nationals due to a flaw in my canopy because I didn't dip it right or let it dry properly. Of course, if I was SCJ, I'd be more worried about someones' Mom suing me because her son slipped and fell on her just-waxed floor and broke his arm.
                        Gip Winecoff

                        1882: "God is dead"--F. Nietzsche

                        1900: "Nietzsche is dead"--God

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                        Swanny
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Sandusky Ohio, USA
                        Posted by Swanny on Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:55 AM
                        The thing is that SC Johnson does extensive product testing for the intended application - floor coating. When the consumer uses the product in ways that are outside of the intended applications the producer then has liability concerns and preception concerns. If you use Future on your model and it destroys it then you form a bad preception of SC Johnson even though the product was never intended for use on a model. Common sense says that the risk is ours as "modelers pushing the envelope" but when it comes to marketing one bad preception requires ten good ones to offset it and SC Johnson doesn't want to have that single bad one to deal with. Did that help or just make it fuzzier?
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                        styrene
                        • Member since
                          May 2003
                        • From: The flat lands of the Southeast
                        Posted by styrene on Thursday, November 13, 2003 8:35 AM
                        QUOTE: SC Johnson does not approve of our use of Future floor wax.


                        That's an interesting statement. Is this some sort of product liability issue, or is there something else going on?

                        Gip Winecoff

                        1882: "God is dead"--F. Nietzsche

                        1900: "Nietzsche is dead"--God

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                        Swanny
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Sandusky Ohio, USA
                        Posted by Swanny on Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:46 AM
                        The instructions on the bottle are for use on the floor, not what we are doing. SC Johnson does not approve of our use of Future floor wax. It is best to let it dry for 48 hours on canopies prior to masking or other applications so that it will not lift or react with other materials. If you use it as a decal setting solution DO NOT use other setting solutions or you will have a severe reaction. Even after a 48 hour wait there can be a slight reaction with products like Micro-Set. All you questions about Future can be answered by reading "The Complete Future" and "Tinting with Future" on my site.
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Future drying times...
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:21 PM
                        I read somewhere that you're supposed to let Future dry 48 hours after airbrushing or brushing it on a model, but then when I read the instructions on the Future bottle it said 8 hours. Which recommendation should I follow? So far, I've been using the 48 hour method, and had success. However, if I could speed things up by only having to let it dry 8 hours, that would be nice. Also, I need to know the drying times when using Future for these purposes:

                        1. dipping clear parts in pure Future or tinted Future
                        2. brushing Future on a small area in preparation for a decal
                        3. airbrushing a whole model with it (how long to dry in between coats and after the last coat)

                        Also, pardon me for going a little off subject, but would it be cheaper to use Testor's flat clear instead of mixing Tamiya base (or whatever the product is called) and Future? Thanks in advance.
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