Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Once upon a time, not very far away from where I am right now, an epic adventure begins to unravel... I've made a sink for my darkroom! I pondered what to use to waterproof this new sink, and then it came to me: fiberglass resin! My first attempt of using the resin on my new sink proved unsuccessful; the resin, being too old, would not cure. "Alas!" I thought to myself, "The resin is too old! I must purchase a new can!" And so, I ventured to my neighborhood place-to-buy-stuff store. After making my purchase of one unused can of fiberglass resin, I began construction on another sink, the first one having been irreversibly covered with uncurable resin. I brought this new sink to my home, for it would be much easier and more convenient to waterproof it there. I took the sink outside and set it on two mighty horses. I spread and brushed the resin long into the night. Occasionally checking on the sink to see if the resin was cured, I noticed something odd. Flies! Fifteen flies! The next time, 47,000 flies! All of which were stuck in the resin! They were dead, of course. What could I do about this? Sand them? No, I would have bug guts everywhere. Nothing! I could do nothing about this! So I went to sleep on the couch. -A rather fictitious account of a fairly actual happening, written by Joe Wasserman, son of Richard