On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:00:17 -0400, Bill
wrote:


On 9/10/2011 8:33 PM, Larry Jaques wrote:

I applied 3 buckets of "hot mud" today. I tried to stretch the second

What's your def of "hot mud", sir?


bucket a bit too far, and ended up scraping a bunch of it off the wall.
So the little bit of wisdom I have for anyone who has read this far is
"don't try to stretch it too much". Somebody can probably start their
own thread with that...LOL.

Works about as well as those fabled "board stretchers" doesn't it?

P.S: I understand that Leon used -very- little mud in that project.


It was fine before I found a small spot I needed to touch up, and the
next thing I knew I was scraping it off (only about 1 ft^3). I think

Square or cubic foot? =:0


I've done a pretty fair job of taking a 40 year old garage wall and
repairing all the holes and wear and tear. There was more time involved
than I would have guessed. As long as I'm going to be painting,
I decided I didn't want to have 2 brand new walls and 1 crappy looking
one. And yes, I patched all of the holes in the ceiling too.

I trust you matched the -texture- perfectly, too?


It will be nice to get my renovations over with, kinda like a bow-saur I

You forget, I never did make that bow saur. Just the prototype and a
start on some of the mahogany frame.


think. BTW, what was so dang-difficult about a bow-saur?

Nuttin' at all. It never was a critical project.

Also, what is
the gizmo that attaches to the cord at the top to the middle of the saw?
I've not seen it on every bow saw, but I've seen it on more than one.

A tensioner stick for winding the tensioning cord. They hold the blade
on the saur.

--
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw