Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Waiter, there's a fly in my sink
From: V8PWR@aol.com
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 07:56:35 EDT

Dans un courrier dat=E9 du 12/05/01 22:32:12 Paris, Madrid (heure d'=E9t=E9)=
,=20
Disfromage@aol.com a =E9crit :

>    Once upon a time, not very far away from where I am right now, an epic=20
>  adventure begins to unravel...  I've made a sink for my darkroom!  I=20
> pondered=20
>  what to use to waterproof this new sink, and then it came to me:=20
fiberglass=20
>  resin!
>      My first attempt of using the resin on my new sink proved=20
unsuccessful;=20
>  the resin, being too old, would not cure.  "Alas!" I thought to myself,=20
"The=20
>=20
>  resin is too old!  I must purchase a new can!"
>      And so, I ventured to my neighborhood place-to-buy-stuff store.  Afte=
r=20
>  making my purchase of one unused can of fiberglass resin, I began=20
>  construction on another sink, the first one having been irreversibly=20
covered=20
>=20
>  with uncurable resin.
>      I brought this new sink to my home, for it would be much easier and=20
more=20
>=20
>  convenient to waterproof it there.  I took the sink outside and set it on=
=20
> two=20
>  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=20
>  noticed something odd.  Flies!  Fifteen flies!  The next time, 47,000=20
flies!=20
> =20
>  All of which were stuck in the resin!  They were dead, of course.  What=20
> could=20
>  I do about this?  Sand them?  No, I would have bug guts everywhere. =20
Nothing!
> =20
>   I could do nothing about this!  So I went to sleep on the couch.
> =20
>      -A rather fictitious account of a fairly actual happening, written by=
=20
> Joe=20
>  Wasserman,
>          son of Richard
> =20
> =20

Just add another coat man !
Why the heck don't you build sinks in stainless steel .

JO GOODTIMES -FRANCE/ AIRBORNE RADAR TECH / LIVE FREE OR DIE