Model Railroading > Thinner for floquil

I have a few bottles of Floquil paint, but no Dio-sol, what can I use for a thinner?
How about for brusxh cleanup?
Thanks,
Gus

I'm interested if anything new comes up for an answer to your question. I investigated this months ago when it was brought up. What I found was a 50/50 mixture of xylene and tyulol (excuse the spelling) and a very small amount of Floquil Retarder, I think. Good Luck.

Rich

rag Wrote:
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> I'm interested if anything new comes up for an
> answer to your question. I investigated this
> months ago when it was brought up. What I found
> was a 50/50 mixture of xylene and tyulol (excuse
> the spelling) and a very small amount of Floquil
> Retarder, I think. Good Luck.
>
> RichY

Yes, Xylene and Toluene. Both of which you will be able to purchase at your local Ace Hardware Store.

-John (Yes, I do work at an Ace)

IIRC, Diosol was listed as containing "Toluol" which is listed a commercial form of Toluene.
Toluene is a common solvent, e.g. for paints, paint thinners, silicone sealants,[20] many chemical reactants, rubber, printing ink, adhesives (glues), lacquers, leather tanners, and disinfectants
Use of a respirator is strongly advised when working with the stuff; it is a VOC I used to test for as a part of the BTEX suite using a gas chromatograph back in my environmental consulting days.  Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl benzene and Xylenes (meta, para and ortho).  Basically a suite of petrolium based volatile organic compounds.

Cheers, Jim Fitch



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/21/16 04:48 by SPDRGWfan.

I always thinned my Floquil with Scalecoat thinner; just not as much as you do with Scalecoat paint.

Rick

Lacquer thinner will thin Floquil - can also be used to clean up.

Scalecoat thinner works great.

At one time I used to mix Floquil in with clear lacquer for painting steam engines.   That's back in the '70s and I think they changed the formula since then and you can't really get nitrocellulose lacquer any more anyway.  Worked pretty darned good.

Acetone is a good clean up agent.

Gerry

Cheap Laquer Thinner is best. You don't need brand name crap.

obsessedfoamer Wrote:
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> Cheap Laquer Thinner is best. You don't need brand
> name crap.

Until you ruin an airbrush or a paint job....