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Leo writes:
I recently visited a laboratory in Canada where I worked in the
1980s.
The lab benches were made on site: plywood worktop coated
with black car body filler and sanded smooth. The result looked quite
good
and was completely seamless, and now after nearly 20 years of abuse
(hot glassware, spills of alcohol, phenol, acids, occasional heavy
scrubbing
to shift radioactive contamination...) they still look fine. Has
anybody done this
at home?

I'm careful not to spill the radioactive contamination when
I'm making a curry, but while it self-cooks, you have to be
careful to avoid burning the worktop with the dish bottom,
and remember to make sure you've taken out all the control
rods when it's done.

--
Andrew Gabriel
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