[VAC] Re: Varnish Tambour doors

[Daisy Welch <jtdjtd@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dana,
The "woodwork " in your '73 is actually a photograph of wood printed in
plastic, like formica. It would require no finish of any kind, oil or
otherwise. The surface of it is rough to imitate an oil finish which is
not very shiny.

What I did was to give it all a good cleaning with a non ammonia, non
abrasive cleaner. You can use a scrubbing brush if you want. Then be
sure to rinse it really well.

I tried waxing to no avail. The thing that looked the best was Amourall
(sp?) which is used to freshen up vinyl and rubber on autos. That's
about the best you can do.

Making it shiny with a varnish or polyurethane would take a lot of
coats, sanding inbetween each one until you filled up the roughness on
the surface. Some materials may actually dissolve the surface , so test
first.  Sanding may well take the photo of the wood grain off the
surface too.

If you really want shiny wood you will have to rebuild, or get an AS
that was built using real wood (year ?)

Daisy