If you want strongest chemical resistance, a marine epoxy will work best,
but I don't recommend working with those kinds of materials for
obvious health and environmental reasons. Evaporating paint from a 4x8
sheet of plywood is like opening up x-number of cans of paint laid out in
a 4x8 rectangle and sticking your nose right over the fumes!! Even with
latex, you may want to use an osha-rated mask for voc vapors. I've been
painting since the early '80's and can't do closets anymore w/o proper
osha protection - I'm just too sensitized to the fumes.
Since I'm on the soapbox, of course you'd never dump wet latex paint down
the drains (duh!), but rather let it air dry and peel it out of the
plastic paint pot you'll be using. Here, the state of MA allows dried
latex paint as a regular household waste (ie, goin in the landfill.) but
I'm not sure of other states.
Dan Troxell
The Paint Guy
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 Michiganfish_at_aol.com wrote:
> Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 13:32:56 EST
> From: Michiganfish_at_aol.com
> Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA--plywood aquariums?
>
> A while back I believe there was a thread on plywood aquariums. If so how do
> you water proof them. I have to water proof a 6x4 foot plywood sink for a
> dark room.
>
> Bob Muller
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