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Dry cotton swab or slightly dampened with thinner? It looks as if it was dry to me.

 

Luke

It was dry, Luke, so your eyes didn't deceive you. If it had been damp, all of the wash would have disappeared.

On 08/05/2021 at 15:59, Mick Bonwick said:

It was dry, Luke, so your eyes didn't deceive you. If it had been damp, all of the wash would have disappeared.

Thanks Mick. So to confirm procedure: gloss surface use a dry cotton swab / brush; satin/ matt surface use a damp brush.

 

Is that about right?

 

Luke

Well, that's not an approach I had thought of, but I can see the logic behind it.

 

It's more a case of how much material you want to remove. Wiping with a dry cotton swab will not remove very much, if anything. Wiping with a damp brush will remove quite a lot, and wiping with a wet brush will probably remove the lot. The original surface will have a bearing on how easy it is to remove anything at all, because a high gloss surface will not have 'grabbed' the wash as much as a matt surface. Remember that we are working on the wash after only a couple of hours at the most. It won't have had a chance to harden completely. If it had been left for a couple of days then it would have been much more difficult to manipulate it this way, regardless of the underlying surface.

 

I hope that hasn't made it even more difficult to decide.