A mystery

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jonoaustin
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A mystery

Post: # 62328Unread post jonoaustin
Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:45 am

Maybe someone can shed some light on this. Single lacquer sent to a pressing plant. Arrived in perfect condition. It was silvered, didn't pass QC - lots bad stuff showed up. Desilvered, lacquer then looked fine. Resilvered, still nasty. Then desilvered again - and again it looked fine. Pics here of the lacquer were taken after desilvering.... I thought maybe it was outgassing (which I've never actually encountered), but others in the know say it wasn't. Can anyone tell me what this could be?
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Re: A mystery

Post: # 62370Unread post trailerparkjesus
Wed Feb 15, 2023 3:30 pm

I had this issue on a couple lacquers, I believe it was because the box was new and I didn't air it out long enough so the lacquers were "wet". Although, it could have just been bad lacquers.

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