Hard As Nails

[admin]

I've got some that is just a bit too thick. Anyone know what to use to thin it out a bit?

[Flytyer]

If I remember right you can use Dave's fleximent thinner.

[Taco]

Sally Hansens sells a nail polish thinner but I just use the Bitter Half's nail polish remover (acetone), go slow

[admin]

I've got some pure acetone I use for my head cement. Thanks.

[jack]

Nail polish remover, these days, has a bunch of undesirable additives(for thinner), go with straight acetone, a drop at a time.

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[Taco]

Good to know, thanks jack

[Guest tallieho]

other than a fly tackle shop ,is it available anywhere else ..sally's or hard as nails thanks

[admin]

I get the hard as nails at the drug store around the nail polish and the Acetone at the hardware store.

 

I've tried using some commercial nail polish remver once on a small amount of cement and it didn't go so well. The straight stuff is the only way to go as Jack says.

[Nick0Danger]

I find its cheap enough i just go buy a new bottle.

[SilverDoctor]

I find its cheap enough i just go buy a new bottle.

 

Safer for your health also, to just buy another bottle, acetone is not a friendly chemical. I've kept away form it and my kids don't have wings or webbed toes.

[admin]

I find its cheap enough i just go buy a new bottle.

 

It's too thin new for what I use it for, so I would need to let it sit for a couple days. I'm fine with the acetone, just taking care not to spill it on myself.

[Nick0Danger]

I just have a few bottles on the go, the new stuff for small dries, and then thicker stuff, for streamers and what not.

[Guest Sundancefisher]

I just have a few bottles on the go, the new stuff for small dries, and then thicker stuff, for streamers and what not.

 

I bought 3 bottles of Hard as Nails and left them on my tying bench. Went down a few days later and the kids had been tying and left all the bottles open... Not enough acetone in the world to thin it up...

 

Still I like to shop for nail polish as few times a year as possible. Now if I only tied roe bags I could by some panty hose...

[ÜberFly]

Sun, you and Rick should get together and look at flower photos together, as well!!

 

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I bought 3 bottles of Hard as Nails and left them on my tying bench. Went down a few days later and the kids had been tying and left all the bottles open... Not enough acetone in the world to thin it up...

 

Still I like to shop for nail polish as few times a year as possible. Now if I only tied roe bags I could by some panty hose...

 

[wongrs]

as someone said, i bought a new bottle but i diluted my thick bottle with some new thinner stuff from the newer bottle. when it's fresh, it's not thick enough for me as i need an excessive number of coats to make flies such as buzzers.

[nebc]

I bought my Hard As Nails at Walmart for cheap. Went to the Home Hardware and bought the smallest container of straight acetone i could find. As someone mentioned, go slow with thinning. Experimenting with one drop at a time worked for me.

[Wolfie]

Guess I'm the odd ball..I've been using it as a 'base', before I apply my glue to make their heads that hold the eyes on my streamers. So ..I need it rather thick.....see the opposite again.............Wolfie