On Saturday 04 March 2017 01:21:26 Erik Christiansen wrote: > On 03.03.17 23:26, Gene Heskett wrote: > > 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. > > That's the one. If it's good enough for barnacles ... > > > > 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. > > The local hardware near-monopoly's search engine doesn't grok "stove > enamel", but a manual search finds a "high heat enamel" which is > claimed to be durable to boot: > > https://www.bunnings.com.au/dulux-duramax-300g-high-heat-enamel-black- >spray-paint_p1400735 > There are similar products available here, but would prefer a medium grey as thats what the rest of the machine has on it now. The paint I used last summer was a bit too dark and glossy, and off toward tan to be a great match.
> There has to be something like it in the northern hemisphere. It's > easier to whack on, but my money's on the epoxy two-pack. And a hand sprayer, like an airbrush, which I have, but I'm near out of acetone for panel cleanup before, and the airbrush after. > > Here, down south, global warming seems to be moving our rainfall > toward summer, as predicted. We've had 278 mm Dec to Feb. The > pre-metric rainfall measure here was the inch, divided into 100 > points. The units program seems to think they're a purely local unit: > > $ units -1 > You have: 278 mm > You want: australiapoint > * 1094.4882 > > In any event, wet means low fire danger. I'm very happy with that, > when they have had a dry 47°C/116°F up north. > > Erik Yes, it seems from what we read up here, the native vegetation/brush burns faster on the bottom of this ball of rock, and soon to be more water. I hope you are more than 200 feet ASL now because thats the ocean rise if the whole antarctic sheet thaws, and it is, breaking records nearly every year lately. Tossing in the greenland ice will add another 80 feet. That's said to be decades away yet. By then we humans will have screwed ourselves out of dry land to live on. You and I will be long gone, but our grand-git may well have to defend their turf with suitable firearms. 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
