[TheForge] Sodium Silicate

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

You would know Bruce;
My associations with it are as a traditional radiator and tank 
sealer, as a half assed concrete water proofer and the medium 
folks used to use to store eggs in, long term. Used to be 
available at Wallgreen's drugs....pf

Bruce Freeman wrote:
> Isn't sodium silicate what you get when you dissolve glass in lye?
> Bruce
> NJ
> 
>>>> frosty at customcpu.com 5/28/2007 9:15 PM >>>
> Speaking of sodium silicate. The stuff is getting 
> harder and harder to get for a reasonable price, at 
> least around here. It's a "Hazmat" and needs all kinds 
> of special packaging, handling, tracking, etc. so the 
> cost is high enough you have to special order it.
> 
> Yesterday or the day before I was watching a a home 
> renovation show and they were sealing a concrete slab. 
> I don't recall the product name but it was sodium 
> silicate in a 5gl. bucket and supposedly available at 
> your local concrete supplier, building supply, etc. 
> hopefully without hazmat hassles.
> 
> I haven't checked it out but thought it worth passing 
> along right about now.
> 
> Fortunately we don't have fleas here but I could sure 
> do without the butt sniffing.
> 
> Frosty
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kathy" <keporter at comcast.net>
> 
>> Fortunately for such vultures as myself, the poor 
>> innocents who are stuck with
>> this dilemma seldom seek answers from a professional 
>> hot glass worker, or they
>> would find out how easily water glass (sodium 
>> silicate) can be combined with
>> perlite (from the nursery section of Builder's 
>> Emporium) to form a moldable
>> ultra light insulating secondary refractory. Nor, do 
>> they spend time on groups
>> like Castinghobby, where they can hear about calcium 
>> board, which they might
>> purchase for very reasonable prices through some 
>> construction supply dealers (it
>> is used as low cost light weight fire insulation in 
>> commercial buildings). No,
>> poor souls, they never find out how easily the 
>> problem can be solved, but you
>> just did >:-)))
>>
>> Mikey
>> "I can live with the tail, but the fleas are murder!"
>>
> 
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