…has any research been done on how bad resin affects dog’s brains ?
try as I might, I just can’t get both Hicksy’s dogs to wear respirators, and I’m a bit concerned because the little jack russell, Rex, sits there for HOURS…won’t leave the shed !! [He looks VERY glassy eyed, to me!!]
On another note, does anyone know how many mls / gms of glosscoat resin to cover a 5’8 x 19 x 2 5/8 approx deck…
and , is it 1-2 % catalyst ?
[tomorrow is forecast to be 100 degrees here…]
thanks for your help, guys !
ben [“chip”]
[p.s. - in the archives, there were 31 pages [!!] on ‘gloss resin’…I got through about 10 of them so far , and couldn’t find what I’m asking about]
250 will be more than enough , probably 210 would be right , but when you scrimp on a gloss you can get sticky patches ,
just go the 250 and let it flow …
better get it on before 10 in the morning or youll be in trouble …
maybe if hicky’s dog gets a good wiff of styrene , he wont wanna hang around anymore …
then again it could work the other way and you got him hooked …
sniffer dog with no sense of smell …
regards
BERT
o yea for gloss 1% on the dot at 26 celsius …if it gets hotter than 30 dont use less catalyst , just dont do the gloss …as it drops down to say 16 use up to 2% and a sliding scale in between …
thanks very very much Bert… MOST appreciated ! I really needed that information…that’s most helpful !
I hope you are blessed with some really good waves today!
I may have to wait for tonight then to gloss, by the sound of it…or early morning [like 8am once Hicksy leaves for work and his kids for school]. At least I have fins to make to keep me busy today… for Hicksy’s latest wood thruster, and for my two 5’ 7 " s.
And, of course, there’s always the mal blanks, plus the stringerless to thin and outline…
Okay, off to Colin’s soon, to pick up the gloss. Then straight on a train and bus to Merriwa.
Poor Rex, he’s really a lovely dog and loves being around people, he’s 8 years old and will sit at your feet no matter what you are doing. He even sits with you while you’ve got planers and belt sanders going full bore. Pick up dog and shake to get the dust off.
His eyes don’t look that glassy do they?
“Rex move away I need to cut that bit of lawn with the mower!!”
Ben if you are a good boy I’ll let you Swaylock from my place, can’t have you suffering withdrawal symptoms now can we.
4 hours of glassy head high with the ocasional bigger set , super clean swell …
only 2 of us out , just me and the young guy who works with me …
he reckons its the best surf hes had in about a year …we found this freak bank off the side of some unknown reef on a desserted stretch of coast , where people only go on weekends , only saw 2 other cars and they were fishermen …
no better way then spend a stinking hot summer after noon surfing perfection in boardies …
i got my first burning of the summer and its not officially summer yet …
i can see hicksy and chip now , both with there chairs pulled up to the computer desk ," you finsished that page chip " hicksy asked , “ages ago” replies chip …
whos getting the keyboard …
better hand it over hicksy , before chip is writhing on the ground having withdrawls …
I don’t know why, really, but I find that hilarious.
IF it needs to be explained to be funny [must be america] : -
for the non-French speaking among us , ‘voir’ = see (I think. ‘Coque’…c’est vrai, oui ?), and the theme so far, from Grant’s shots ,and my comments, appears to be the glazed / coloured / dilated pupils [tinted ? pigmented?] of one lovable rogue ‘Rex’… who sat at my feet, despite my best attempts to move him, as foam dust from the mal’s rails literally SHOWERED onto him.
Rex would have to be the most shaping-stoked dog I’ve ever met in my life…the only way to get him to leave Grant / hicksy’s garage is to turn the heavy duty vacuum cleaner on. He’s so small, I think he must have nightmares about being permanently stuck inside the vacuum cleaner, never to be seen or heard from again…
'injecting Aussie humour into Swaylocked arteries ’ “chip”
yeah my dog would lay there and sleep while i use a planer for hours…and bug me to play tennis ball ,while im glassing so now i gotta kick her out,but then i have to play tennis ball when im done…dog likes to be around but untill they/i make respirators and dust masks for dogs shes gotta stay out…
yeah my dog would lay there and sleep while i use a planer for hours…and bug me to play tennis ball ,while im glassing so now i gotta kick her out,but then i have to play tennis ball when im done…dog likes to be around but untill they/i make respirators and dust masks for dogs shes gotta stay out…
… so, you have a computer, a planer, and a dog. Life couldn’t be better, have !!!
Anyone else out there got foam addict dogs , cats, mice, cockroaches ?
…send photos. [I’d love to see them !] to… ‘My Pet Shapes Boards’ ( c/- this thread )
chippy
ps- reading back on this… geez, you can tell I just spent two respirator-free days in Hicksy’s shed, can’t you !!
That’s because when Ben was a school boy he was too busy memorizing the 50 state capitals in the USA instead European geography. Not that my geography is any better. I learned where Galicia is located in Spain this weekend. Looks like you get hammered by big north Atlantic swells. mike
Hey Ben, you’re right, France and Spain are the same thing but Galicia is a different world… haha!
Rooster, yes! here we have cold water every single day of the year, lots of raining days and a long winter but here you can surf good waves with good winds driving a little more than an hour every day of the year… The bad thing is that we have few point breaks due the kind of stone our rocks are build from, but we have LOTS of beach breaks and some are really good, and always empty.
We used to have a stray shop cat that used foam dust in the shaping room as a litter box.The Grom that cleaned the shop would chase that cat all over the place.When the Grom finally cought the cat he was shredded like lettuce.He still has scars on his arm after 30 years. rb
