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Re: Strip: simple tips
By:Shawn Baker
Date: 1/16/2003, 2:03 pm
In Response To: Strip: simple tips (Bert & Sasha)

: Instead of using spray adhesive for applying the paper patterns for the
: stations, I found that thinning wood glue with water and rolling the glue
: out with a foam roller, then apply the pattern,The result is great, I
: always have had problems with the paper curling off, using the spray
: contact cement, plus the wood glue smells better.

Coming from a signmaker, that's especially valuable advice!!! :)

I've only ever had good luck with spray adhesive by spraying 2 coats on both surfaces. That gets expensive if you consider how cheap thinned wood glue is.

: Today I found mixing pots at a PPG auto body supply store,they have every
: mixing ratio you could think of on them,8oz cup $.30, quart size $.35

Plastic or paper?

I'm still on the lookout for a cheap (and steady) supply of 1 oz. and 3 oz. mixing cups. The Wooden Boat Shop in Seattle used to stock them, but they closed. I saw a golf clubmaker's catalogue that had a sleeve of 100 of them for $4.00, and planned to snatch one up, but lost the link. :(

: Disposable gloves,If you have a Interstate Batteries supplier they now sell
: blue nitrle gloves that are textured for grip, being nitrle, the epoxy can
: be wiped off to a paper towel, I dont know the price, the brand is
: Gloveworks.

Sounds like Sasha is having a good time out paddling her King--looks like you're on track to join her shortly!! :)

Shawn

Messages In This Thread

Strip: simple tips
Bert & Sasha -- 1/15/2003, 8:36 pm
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Ted Henry -- 1/20/2003, 6:00 pm
Re: Strip: simple tips
Paul G. Jacobson -- 1/16/2003, 11:47 pm
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Malcolm Schweizer -- 1/16/2003, 6:32 pm
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Shawn Baker -- 1/16/2003, 2:03 pm
Re: Strip: simple tips *LINK*
Ken Sutherland -- 1/23/2003, 9:11 pm
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Marcel Rodriguez -- 1/16/2003, 6:47 pm
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Jeff The Tall -- 1/16/2003, 3:14 pm
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Sasha -- 1/16/2003, 5:19 pm