08-13-2005, 06:05 PM
I just finished the test using pitch, and can claim utter disaster. I smeared hot pitch on two samples of canvas. I let one sit in the refrgirator to simulate cold climates and kept one in the back yard at what is now 88 degree heat. The cold one cracked easiliy on bending. So did the one left to dry outside, except that it was also sticky to the touch.
The instructions advised heating the can in a pan of boiling water. The stuff is nasty to handle while hot. The process also left pitch smears on my bar-b-que tongs, and some on the kitchen stove top when I tried to handle the melted pitch. There is some in my cat's tail, some burned into the surface of the designer stove, and spots on the floor. My wife is livid.
Back to square one on a waterproof outer shell. Is there any evidence of using paint as a waterproofing? Elmers glue does work, but since there were no Home Depots is ancient Greece, (except maybe Athens), I dont know what might work.
Gaius Decius Aquilius
(Ralph Izard)
P.S. -- Just noticed a new rule that we use our real names... sure, but this rule make the assumption that we are all real people. (Here, in New Mexico, you do not have to actually exist to vote, obtain a Driver's Licence, or file a state Income Tax Return. You may also do these things if you are dead.)
The instructions advised heating the can in a pan of boiling water. The stuff is nasty to handle while hot. The process also left pitch smears on my bar-b-que tongs, and some on the kitchen stove top when I tried to handle the melted pitch. There is some in my cat's tail, some burned into the surface of the designer stove, and spots on the floor. My wife is livid.
Back to square one on a waterproof outer shell. Is there any evidence of using paint as a waterproofing? Elmers glue does work, but since there were no Home Depots is ancient Greece, (except maybe Athens), I dont know what might work.
Gaius Decius Aquilius
(Ralph Izard)
P.S. -- Just noticed a new rule that we use our real names... sure, but this rule make the assumption that we are all real people. (Here, in New Mexico, you do not have to actually exist to vote, obtain a Driver's Licence, or file a state Income Tax Return. You may also do these things if you are dead.)
