Re: Sealant For Lead Tubing
By Douglas K. Rhodes
Permatex automotive gasket sealer comes in several hardnesses. One grade stays like leather, another gets fairly hard, and so forth. The binder is shellac, with some kind of filler and non-volatile oil (castor oil?) to keep it from becoming rock-hard. I have created my own burnt shellac for sealing situations where no flexibility is needed, but the Permatex is great for the kind of situation you described with the lead tubing. Cleanup is done with methyl alcohol.
Four feet of snow, with drifts up to eight feet, has fallen on Victoria over the last three days, the worst storm since 1916. The city is paralyzed. I shoveled three feet of snow off my laundry room roof. The roof is low pitch, with widely spaced old rafters, and vulnerable to collapse, particularly when the snowfall turns to rain. Then the snow on the roof becomes a huge sponge and gets _really_ heavy. Not exactly what the doctor would recommend me doing two weeks after gall-bladder surgery!
Cheers, Doug
[ When it gets head-high, Doug, "Keep your chin up!" -- Robbie
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