Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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