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Background
Owatrol Oil (described as a Paint Conditioner & Rust Inhibitor on the can) is made
from a secret blend belonging to a privately owned family business and was first
invented or discovered back in the 1930’s by a painting contractor who used it
initially as a ‘tool’ to make his oil based paints flow and perform better in a wide
variety of weather conditions.
Over the decades numerous other diverse applications have been discovered and
more uses are being discovered all the time.
How does Owatrol Work?
Because of its powerful penetrating (and adhesion) abilities it can perform many
extremely useful functions.
To see & understand how it penetrates, (assuming you have some Owatrol) do this
simple 5 minute experiment or test. Get a piece of plain unprinted cardboard about
6” or 15cm square & place it flat on a table or bench.
Gently place a drop of water on the cardboard and then place a drop of Owatrol Oil
about 6mm to 8mm (1/4”) away from the water drop. You will observe that that
despite the fact that we all know that water is ‘wet’ it still does not penetrate down
into the cardboard (eventually it will) and you will see that unlike the nearby ‘ball of
water’ the drop of Owatrol oil will begin to soak in and penetrate immediately.
[This observation is referred to as Surface Tension.]
Watch what happens when the Owatrol oil drop reaches and ‘touches’ the drop of
water! It encircles the water droplet and even gets under it to the point where the
water droplet can easily be rolled over on to the adjacent & now oil soaked
cardboard surface. (With this little demo you can even get water to float on top of
oil!) This simple demonstration proves that Owatrol oil is a lot ‘wetter’ than water,
and that in turn proves that Owatrol Oil can get into places where even water cannot
get into.
This fact as you will see later has many implications and subsequent benefits for
anybody involved in painting / decorating, restoration, refurbishment, DIY etc.
Basic outline: Owatrol oil can be used by itself or it can be added to any oil based
5undercoat, primer, gloss, eggshell, satinwood, varnish, etc. for various effects.
