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Offline Pac'em out

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Cure time with gasket lacquer?
« on: December 21, 2010, 07:57:00 AM »
How long do you all let your gasket lacquer cure between coats?  How about after the final coat, before fletching with Ducco?

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Re: Cure time with gasket lacquer?
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2010, 08:38:00 AM »
I've never use it but from what I understand it is almost instanteneous. I think I'd let the final coat cure at least over night before adding fletching to insure the vapors don't effect the Duco.
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Re: Cure time with gasket lacquer?
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2010, 09:42:00 AM »
Troy Breeding of the former Sticks and Feathers Arrow Smithing recommended leaving the last coat overnight to cure before fletching.

I have done it both ways, instantly and overnight but I only use it for a top coat over my cresting. It is not a very good arrow sealer by its self so I put it over epoxy acetone.

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Re: Cure time with gasket lacquer?
« Reply #3 on: December 21, 2010, 01:46:00 PM »
I go thorough the dozen for the first coat, then right back for the second coat. Then I let them rest for about a half hour before I hit them with the plastic version of 4/0 steel wool to smooth things out. Wipe off the sanding dust and then do coats three and four right after one another.
I let the finish cure for another hour, glue on nocks; another hour and I start fletching with Duco.  
I give 24 hours before shooting.

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Re: Cure time with gasket lacquer?
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2010, 05:30:00 PM »
I do a dozen arrows and then start right back with the first arrow again. But let dry for 24 hours to fletch.

 One word of "caution", use with plenty of ventilation. That stuff is nasty.

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Re: Cure time with gasket lacquer?
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2010, 07:59:00 AM »
Im a sprinter by nature and put four coats on back to back, wait maybe a 1/2 hour if that and fletch with NPV from Saunders, never once had a feather come free. I shoot them an hour after fletching as well. Sounds dangerous, but like I said zero feathers have let go.

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