Jay Pique wrote in
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 20:40:04 GMT, "Bob S." wrote:
"solarman" wrote in message
.. .
No need to do the rolling in hands and fingers trick anymore....
It comes in a tube to fit an ordinary caulking gun. Saves tons of
time and the end of the tube is square to help form the bead...
Home Depot has plenty of them. I just finished doing about 15
windows day before yesterday with the stuff....
Damn.......next they'll be telling me that we have pre-packaged, sliced
bread at the borgs too...what's this world coming to anyhow...
Good points from both Doug and solarman.
Thanks for all the advice guys. I'm debating whether or not to rip
off the ones that I've already done and start over. They sorta look
like crap, but they're at least "done" for now.
In the future I'll definitely go with glazing in a tube, a real
glazier's tool, mineral spirits out the ying-yang and a good dose of
patience on tap for the inevitable frustrations.
It's odd - I don't mind a lot of the tasks involved with restoration,
but painting trim and glazing windows really bug me. I can sit and
heat strip or sand or paint with a 4 incher all day long and be quite
content. And the repair work and refitting is the bomb - it's the
detail finishing that I'm not so keen on.
Who knows - it's probably just lack of experience.
Thanks again.
JP
Yup it's the detail stuff that takes about 90% of the time and seems to be
about 10% of the show, but if you screw it up, everybody sees it.
I do a lot of restoration work so I know where you're coming from.
Glazing is more pracxtice than art. 33 sucks, so have good advice there.
Roll a rope that is about 1/2 proud of the rabbet and lay it in. Wet the
knife with mineral spirits or blo and press it in one fell swoop (or is it
swope). I prefer blo to mineral spirits, but both work.
Useta ski at JP a bit. How's the snow now. Been skiing for a week or so
here.
Regards,
Hank (in the Catskills)
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