Posted on 08/26/2016 3:02:10 PM PDT by A Cyrenian
I miss my old Pump-N-Seal.
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Never buy more of any urethane product than you will use at one application.
Just common sense.
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Cyano-epoxy is what is used to glue reflective pavement markers to the road.
As well as it does that, I would guess it’s a pretty good product.
“But wait .... theres more !”
“If you buy within the next 10 mins we’ll send a second can absolutely free...only pay shipping & handling (which is the price of another can)”
“the Mosquito Bombers” One of my favorite fighter bombers.
Ginsu ! ......“gesundheit”
Thank You, Hench
Submarine?
We had mega ice dams years ago and my better half hacked the ice away and accidently punched a slit in the rain gutter. Three years ago the leaky slit that had been previously filled with roofing tar was sprayed with flex seal and hasn’t leaked yet (on north side of house). So we decided to coat the chimney which goes thru the center of our house and cathedral ceiling and which had constantly leaked with flex seal paint on and it hasn’t leaked at all so far - - several months now. We had always used tar on the chimney before and it kept cracking and leaking.
“I read that the Germans were so impressed with the Mosquito Bomber that they tried to use wood as an aircraft material too.
Their planes kept coming apart in the air. They never could get the glue right.”
yarddog’s source had no idea what they were writing about.
As a construction material for aircraft, wood was already known to have advantages over metal (steel or aluminum alloys), but it had definite disadvantages (known also). Facing probable war with Nazi Germany, the British sought alternate ways to use materials forecast to be easier to obtain, as expected of wood, compared to metals.
No one foresaw that the DeHavilland company would be able to build airframes so strong, so durable, so light that any such dramatic performance margin was possible (initial spec was 275 mph; early in the design effort, DeHavilland engineers were certain they could reach 397 mph). Even so, threat estimators believed enemy fighter performance enhancements would shortly erase the DH98 Mosquito’s advantage.
The Mosquito did succeed in retain the edge in speed over all propeller-driven aircraft; it was found to be quite adaptable to many other roles as the war ground on. It could carry munitions loadouts as heavy as those hauled by much larger aircraft; it reached blinding speeds and high altitudes, and could fly to very long ranges. But it could not do all of those at once ... let us concede that tradeoffs bedevil all systems.
The aircraft did provoke envious comments from Nazis. Berating a meeting of German aircraft manufacturers during 1943, Hermann Goering remarked: “...It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito. ... The British ... knock together a beautiful wooden aircraft ... There is nothing the British do not have. They have the geniuses and we have the nincompoops. ...”
When forced to it by materials shortages, the Third Reich did resort to wood in aircraft construction: the He162 Volksjaeger was made mostly of wood, and the semi-expendable Bach Ba349 Natter interceptor incorporated a number of wooden components. Neither machine saw enough operational use to validate any opinions on the durability of German wooden combat airframe construction efforts.
I grabbed a cheap can a while back, but didn’t have a use for it until I noticed the tape on the kids metal bats was coming loose. I tape off the bat and spray the flex seal on. It wasn’t an even coat, so I took a piece of masking paper and wiped some of the excess flex seal off and evened out the remaining. Gave the bats an impressive handle with a textured grip.
Back in the day, Great-grandpa decided he needed some new false teeth, and ordered a do-it-yourself kit advertised in a mail-order catalog for considerably less money than the local dentist. The kit arrived and told how to mix up the plaster of paris, insert in mouth for exactly 15 minutes, take the casting out, and send in mail to the company who would make the teeth from the casting and return. Being home alone, Great-grandpa mixed up the compound and placed it in his mouth as instructed. Deciding that he needed to remain fairly still, he stretched out on the couch and fell asleep.
When he woke, the compound had completely hardened and he could not remove the casting. He managed to chip it out with a hammer and screwdriver, but admitted to my Grandma later that he was very scared for a good while.
Too bad about your gun collection though.
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