Came home late last night and went down to check TM lite first coat that had been drying for 6 hrs. A big ol gnat was gunked up in a wrap. I removed it as best I could with a thin needle. TM was still tacky. I cleaned the edges of the wrap with denatured. Thought about starting all over on that wrap but decided to cover it with a coat of TM regular and see how it turns out. I know this has happened to a few of you...... what can I expect? Thanks

It should do fine, you may? have to take a razor and "trim down" any high spot of finish and add one more coat if it doesn't smooth out as nice as you want it too. Next time, after you remove the bug, heat that area and it will thin out and lay down the TM nicely where the bug was. You may not even have needed another coat, depending on how "set" the finish was.

DR

Build yourself a box with a clear plastic lid that contain the drying motor and rollers.

Should have just encapsulated him and charged extra for the inlay!! LOL!!!

Bill in WV

Had one on the dryer last week, second coat of Flex Coat about half set up. Happened to look over at it from the wrapping bench and there stood a fly up to his knee caps in Flex Coat rotating at 4 rpm. I dug the critter out with a pointed spatula . Picked up a glob off the foil with a dental pick and put it in the hole.
Waved the alcohol lamp across it a couple of times and it was good as new, smoothed right out. The fly had more trouble with it than I did.

I had a simlar problem with my dryer which let the rod move accidently while drying The result was the felt from the rod support ended up being ground into the finish. I worked for some time to clean up the guide, but ended up cutting off the guide, cleaing the rod, and rewrapping the guide and replacing the coating.
Then, I fixed the dryer, so that the rod could never again move down the rod to ruin the finish.
Luckily it only scrubbed one guide.

Take care
Roger