From: terry lindquist (tsll@localnet.com)
Date: 01/15/03-01:10:54 PM Z
Sandy:
If it works on the deck of your sailboat, I will try it on the deck of
my Trawler...
...anyway...
terry lindquist
On Tuesday, Jan 14, 2003, at 22:49 US/Eastern, Sandy King wrote:
> Jeff wrote:
>
>
>> Sandy: At Home Depot and such places you'll find in the paint
>> section some stuff called Dip-It. It's a heavy-duty rubbery-plastic
>> goo that people use to coat the handles of screwdrivers and similar.
>> You just dip the Richeson brush handle in it, dip again if you want,
>> etc., and you have a nice hard-rubber coated deal there. I coated
>> mine right to the edge of the metal ferrule. You can also apply
>> Dip-It w/ a brush, which I did w/ another implement. -jb
>
>
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Thanks to you, and to Clay, for the tip. This stuff sounds like the
> solution for the cracking paint on the Richeson. Wonder how it would
> work on the deck of a sailboat?
>
> Sandy
>
>
>
>
>>
>> At 09:00 PM 1/14/2003 -0500, Sandy King wrote:
>>> Carl Weese wrote:
>>>
>>>> Christine,
>>>>
>>>> I know some people love the 4" brush but I'm perfectly happy with a
>>>> 2" for
>>>> prints from 8x10 to 12x20. For 'miniature negatives'--4x5 & 5x7--I
>>>> use a 1".
>>>>
>>>> ---Carl
>>>> --
>>>> web site with picture galleries
>>>> and workshop information at:
>>>
>>>
>>> Well, I came to the Richeson brushes fairly late but when I finally
>>> discovered them decided that I just had to have all of the sizes. I
>>> am quite happy with the 1.5" brush, delighted with the 2" size, the
>>> 3" brush is also great, and I just fail to understand how Carl can
>>> find true happiness in coating large prints without the 4" version!!
>>>
>>> But has anyone found a solution for the lousy paint job on the
>>> handle? All of my brushes, which have black handles, have cracking
>>> paint which is causing the paint to flake off, leaving unexposed
>>> wood.
>>>
>>> Sandy King
>
>
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