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I couldn't work out why my pens were dull over the last couple of weeks and following a PM chat with Jim after his Xmas tree pens I suddenly realised that most of my pens are made in the summer when I have high heat and little humidity, but that the last 50 or so were made when I had a paraffin heater running in the workshop to bring me up to 14 degrees C. This was generating humidity and I was starting the workshop at zero C so the glue hadn't had time to warm up. So after coating 5 coats I worked through the micromesh grits again excluding the 1st 2 and lo and behold good polish again.

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[QUOTE="Pierre, post: 221622, member: 1143"] I couldn't work out why my pens were dull over the last couple of weeks and following a PM chat with Jim after his Xmas tree pens I suddenly realised that most of my pens are made in the summer when I have high heat and little humidity, but that the last 50 or so were made when I had a paraffin heater running in the workshop to bring me up to 14 degrees C. This was generating humidity and I was starting the workshop at zero C so the glue hadn't had time to warm up. So after coating 5 coats I worked through the micromesh grits again excluding the 1st 2 and lo and behold good polish again. PG PG [/QUOTE]

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