On Friday 03 March 2017 22:57:32 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.03.17 22:20, Gene Heskett wrote: > > And I've not figured out how to put a good durable coat of > > paint on it yet. Even 6 months dry, it scratches like warm butter > > handling it. And what I put on last was some sort of an epoxy > > curing Massey-Ferguson Grey implement paint in a spray can. Did that > > last August on a 85F day. 28F & some bite in the breeze tonight at > > 22:20 pm. > > Dunno about spraypack epoxy, Gene - unless it's in two cans. The stuff > my brother has put on the steel beams of his massive new veranda is > two-pack, not spraypack. The <probably polyurethane> which went on my > kitchen's cork floor nigh on 30 years ago was two-pack, and it isn't > showing signs of wear yet. That is clear, but it must be possible to > tint it, for other purposes.
I used a two part stuff when I redid the bottom of my ancient boat several years back, mixed the hardener in and air gunned it on within an hour IIRC. And that has proven to be pretty tough stuff. > OTOH, if your swarf is coming off hot enough to soften epoxy, then > maybe you need a really good bake-on powdercoat job? Or stove enamel, > perhaps. ;) > I haven't made enough swarf with it yet to measure how hot it was when it hit me. Stove enamel? Not looked too hard, but I don't recall seeing any on the shelves either. > Things are quiet here - I've just finished carting and stacking 8 m³ > of firewood under cover, after chainsawing some big rounds, too knotty > to split. Winter's coming. (Well, OK, it's still 27°C/48.6°F in the > shade out there, on the fourth day of autumn, but it's coming.) > > Erik And you've got way more giddyup for that than I have back left to do it with. Lets hope yours is as mild as ours was. Nobody here even put a blade on their riders or 4 wheelers, not enough snow. Lots of rain this last 6 weeks though, which we needed really really badly. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
