The process to wash organic flax seed oil to make it faster drying, and more functional.

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[jblyttle]

I won't be the first to try this, but I am interested in hearing how it works out for people. Thank you for posting this.

 

[Steve Tall]

Thanks for the info, I didn't know about this process. Sounds really great for oil paints, so the paintings can be preserved for centuries.

With all due respect, I won't be using that process for tool handles, since I've been getting good enough results with store-bought organic flax oil (even with lignans and natural antioxidants) that went past its expiration date. I let the solids settle to the bottom and pour the clear oil off the top, sometimes into a bigger jar that can hold a small paintbrush. Despite the antioxidants, it will still 'dry' and harden, perhaps taking longer than usual, but I like to think there could be a beneficial effect to this if the oil keeps soaking deeper into the wood before it 'dries'. The oil poured into the bigger jar gets thicker over time, as it's exposed to more air and oxidizes, and it sometime solidifies inside the jar or solidly 'glues' the jar lid tight.

 

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[Square_peg]

Then strain the good stuff from the top through a coffee filter, and cotton balls.

How exactly do you do that? Do you fill a coffee filter with cottonballs and pour off the top of the mixture into the cottonball/coffee filter matrix?

 

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[Square_peg]

Do the cotton balls even do anything after the oil has already been thru the coffee filter?

 

[droppoint1]

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[Square_peg]

In fact, when I squeezed the oil out of the cotton balls into the clean stuff one time, it was milky looking and dirtied up the whole clean batch. So it is catching something.

Or maybe there was cotton dust in the cotton balls.

 

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