Gilly's Pure Tung Oil
The figures Gilly's prints for Gilly's Pure Tung Oil on its own data sheet, at the conditions it names. Where the sheet doesn't give a figure, this page says so rather than borrow one from another product.
- Dry to the touch
- Not on the sheet we read
- Recoat
- 24 h
- Ready for use
- Not on the sheet we read
- Full cure
- 28 days
- Coverage
- Not on the sheet we read
- Thinning
- 50/50 with Gilly’s Citrus Thin
- VOC
- Not on the sheet we read
- Conditions
- Not on the sheet we read
- Indoors or out
- Not on the sheet we read
- Food contact
- The sheet we read makes no food-contact statement
One source: Gilly's, the maker of that product
From the sheet: Up to 4 weeks to cure completely; light use is fine before then, per the maker.
Against its kind
Gilly's Pure Tung Oil is one of the products in pure tung oil; here is that kind across every maker we have read.
Pure tung oil: recoat across makers
Only one maker’s sheet so far, so no class value: see its own figure above.
Pure tung oil: coverage across makers
No maker we read prints a coverage.
Related
- Every product of this kind: tung oil
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- How much to buy: finish coverage calculator
- Every finish side by side: finish dry time chart
- What the federal rules say about finishes and food: food-contact finishes
Work it out for your project
- Plan your coats of this finish
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