{"id":231558,"date":"2016-06-18T05:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T05:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/?p=231558"},"modified":"2016-06-18T05:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T05:28:49","slug":"tip-water-based-finish-is-white-in-the-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/tip-water-based-finish-is-white-in-the-can\/","title":{"rendered":"TIP: Water-Based Finish is White in the Can"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labeling on cans of polyurethane and lacquer can sometimes be confusing. It may not be obvious whether the finish is solvent-based or water-based.<\/p>\n<p>One way to distinguish which is which is to read the label for the thinning and clean-up solvent. Solvent-based products will list a solvent such as petroleum distillate, aliphatic hydrocarbon or lacquer thinner. Water-based products will list water.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/blogs_posts-Water-based-finish-is-white-in-the-canopt_large.jpg?5319468741285598587\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; float: right;\">Another way to tell is to open the can and look at the finish. Solvent-based products will be clear; water-based finishes will be white. The whiteness disappears when the finish dries.<\/div>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labeling on cans of polyurethane and lacquer can sometimes be confusing. It may not be obvious whether the finish is solvent-based or water-based. One way to distinguish which is which is to read the label for the thinning and clean-up solvent. Solvent-based products will list a solvent such as petroleum distillate, aliphatic hydrocarbon or lacquer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":231559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1209],"tags":[1395,1307,1214,1262,1419,1416,1227,1426,1427,1228,1297,1229],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinishingstore.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}