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Re: ?
By:NPenney
Date: 8/18/1998, 11:16 am
In Response To: Re: ? (Timothy - Toronto, Ontario)

Definately a person could apply just enough epoxy to not need to spread it around. A little skill with a spray gun, and away you go. But to apply it with a spatula or squigee, without spreading it around, nahhh. Don't buy it, at least not without some further explanation. It's certainly possible your explanation is it, but even then, you've always got to work it around as some segments of cloth don't want to wet particularly, and your chosing of pour locations to work out from don't always line up edge to edge perfectly with the locations around them from other pours. It's just a darn strange thing for him to have said. Especially since the normal way of working with it and a squeegee (I'll pick a spelling of that word yet) is to make a puddle, and spread that puddle around. Repeat as necessary.

>

> "I hope you can understand my curiousity about how you apply
> it if you cannot even spread it around to apply it."

> Couldn't a very experienced person apply just the right amount,
> so they don't need to be spreading (moving) excess all over the surface?
> It only vaguely relates, but a very experienced drywaller or plasterer
> will apply the exact amount needed and find it unnecessary to keep
> moving the mud around. In the case of most plasters, the less you
> work them, the better the results.

Messages In This Thread

Re: ?
NPenney -- 8/18/1998, 6:54 am
Re: ?
Timothy - Toronto, Ontario -- 8/18/1998, 9:17 am
Re: ?
NPenney -- 8/18/1998, 11:16 am