replying to John Rumm, Paintguy wrote:
Agreed .... "alk" as in "walk". What is so mysterious and diificult about
that? So we have "kalk".

My suggestion is to contact the applications engineering departments of maybe
five or so caulking manufacturers and ask them. Do I have the time for that?
No, so I'll stick to "kalk".

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On 08/01/17 07:44, Paintguy wrote:
replying to John Rumm, Paintguy wrote:
Agreed .... "alk" as in "walk". What is so mysterious and diificult about
that? So we have "kalk".

My suggestion is to contact the applications engineering departments of
maybe
five or so caulking manufacturers and ask them. Do I have the time for
that?
No, so I'll stick to "kalk".

its 'cork'

as in 'walk'

and 'talk;

and 'baulk'

and 'chalk'

On 08/01/2017 05:44, Paintguy wrote:
replying to John Rumm, Paintguy wrote:
Agreed .... "alk" as in "walk". What is so mysterious and diificult about
that? So we have "kalk".

My suggestion is to contact the applications engineering departments of
maybe
five or so caulking manufacturers and ask them. Do I have the time for
that?
No, so I'll stick to "kalk".

The OP posted this in 2010.

Do you have anything constructive to say?

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