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From: C (no email)
Date: Wed Aug 16 2006 - 21:23:01 EDT
try using talc or even regular powder will work, as well as
lime/pulverized limestone (calcium carbonate)
cheap and works just as well.
forget the Gougeon aka "Gougethem" West alternatives.
brian
beaufort, nc
Jeffrey Mills wrote:
> "We eat when we're not hungry, drink when we're not thirsty. We buy
> what we don't need and throw away everything that's useful."
> -- Harrison Ford's character in the film _Mosquito Coast_
>
> Besides being insufferably cheap and lazy, I get real pleasure from
> making things that I need out of perfectly good salvage. I can't begin
> to count the things that I've cannibalized from something else.
> Sometimes they end up looking like Frankenstein's experiment gone
> terribly wrong, but they work well enough.
>
> Now I've grown tired of buying epoxy thickeners, paying for something
> that has a cost mark-up of something like 5,000% at West Marine. Yes,
> marine fillers and thixotropics are formulated for maximum strength
> and convenience, but in the bulk of applications, wood flour is fine,
> and sometimes anything stronger is merely over-engineering.
>
> I've never looked for wood flour in the stores. I tried using router
> dust, but it was too coarse and granular. So what about Wheat flour?
> Wood flour is almost pure cellulose, and cellulose is merely extra
> long chain starch molecules. Wheat flour is merely shorter chains of
> starch. It's the same composition. I have some stale wheat flour in
> the cupboard. Using it would save me the time and money of trying to
> find and then paying for, wood flour. If no one has any objections,
> I'm going to try it on the chine fillets and sheer clamps on these
> pirogue/kayaks. If I succeed, who knows? I could build an entire boat
> out of stale food.
>
> Jeff
> "Weizenboot"
>
>
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