He had a piece of clean rag in his tool bag, and there was a can of turps in the room.
The smell of the turpswill go away in about a hour's time.
This gum layer is left to dry thoroughly, and is not removed when the work is washed out (without water) with turps and a dry piece of flannel or felt.
Now the work is washed out with turps and a piece of dry, soft felt or flannel, without water, till all the work disappears, and the plate rolled up solid black.
Lye induces oxidation of the types, while turps leave an oily film on them, which preserves them from the action of the atmosphere.
Many prefer paraffine oil rather than boiled oil or turps for thinning down both black and colored inks.
If you find it too thick add more oil and a little turps and the driers, and proceed to strain through a piece of muslin.
The paint for use should be the consistency of cream (not clotted or thickened) and should be put on evenly with a good brush, so you put enough oil and turps to make it this consistency.
The proportion of turps to oil should be one of former to three of latter, and of driers a piece the size of a walnut to the pound, but the tradesman of whom you buy your colour will tell you this.
After standing a little the fat oil is deposited in the saucer and the clear turps left in the cup.
Turpentine, fat oil, and lavender oil are used: the turps to run the colour, the fat oil to stiffen, and the oil of lavender to retard the drying.
The turps containing the 112 fire test oil will leave, upon evaporation, a faint but decided greasy stain.
Sandpaper lightly and then mix Florence, flake, or cremnitz white to a consistency that will render the color free working under a half elastic, soft bristle brush, using turps for the thinner, and hard drying finishing varnish for the binder.
A striping or lettering pencil should be immediately washed out in turps upon the conclusion of the work in hand.
These yellows can be purchased of the manufacturers ready for use, barring a simple thinning down with turps and the addition of a little varnish for a binder.
Equal parts of filler (excepting English) and keg lead, by weight, reduced to a heavy paste in quick rubbing varnish and japan, and then cut with turps to the proper consistency.
A lead ground in an excess of oil will necessitate washing in turps to expel a portion of the oil, if the proper proportions of ingredients would be maintained.
Let the turps gradually soak up and soften the pitted varnish, adding more turps as required.
A simple soaking in turps or benzine will sometimes effect the needed softening up.
The butter on the plates was horrid, and instead of the proper drying-cloth she got hold of a painting-rag, with turps on it.
It was afterwards made with flake white or dry white lead ground in turps only and mixed with the polishing copal varnish with the addition of tints as required, by which means a white of any required character could be produced.
After being diluted with turps the white ground may be applied in this varnish, and then a coat or two of the varnish itself may be applied over it.
When thoroughly dry, the ferns may be coloured with oil paint thinned with turps and varnish, sufficient to give lustre without shininess.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "turps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
