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| Subject: | Re: partly PE! |  |
| Date: | Apr 14, 2002 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
Warrink wrote:
>Hi Andrew,
>
>if you think making a tie-down is a lot of work, repairing a broken one is
>about the most tedious job in the world!
>Wire would work as well if not better. I wasn't sure I could accurately bend
>wire to such a small shape and for some reason I hate drilling holes and
>refilling the inevitable gaps around the inserted piece of wire. Wire would
>be a lot sturdier though.
>One word of warning, watch out using water on the paper. It slightly
>dissolved and fuzzed on our Humber because we washed it with water before
>painting. I'd recommend coating it in gloss paint first. You could use metal
>foil as well but I found it too springy to work with on such a small scale.
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>-Eelke Warrink
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I like thin strips of lead foil (such as used to come on wine bottle
corks) to make the straps. No spring back at all and folds and crinkles
nicely, too.
By the way, do any countries still put lead foil on their wine bottles?
Not the thin aluminium that shows up here in Canada, but actual dull
lead foil. If so, I would gladly pay postage from anywhere in the world
if someone would start saving them for me. I am starting to run out of
my supply and despair of finding a replacement.
Paul
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 | Beauty of a Humber! - Andrew Herbert - Apr 12, 2002 |
| . . . partly PE! [IMG] - Warrink - Apr 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: most impressive! - Christophe Jacquemont - Apr 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: partly PE! - Andrew Herbert - Apr 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: partly PE! - Warrink - Apr 12, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: partly PE! - Paul Roberts - Apr 14, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Pewter sheet material! - Ed Kusiak - Apr 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pewter sheet material! - Paul Roberts - Apr 14, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pewter sheet material! - Kurt Laughlin - Apr 13, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Pewter sheet material! - Paul Roberts - Apr 14, 2002 |
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