[TheForge] Re: My latest discovery - cleaning up wet epoxy cement

Jerry Frost akfrosty at mtaonline.net
Mon Apr 14 02:40:45 EDT 2008


Or buy a gallon can and use a refillable spray bottle.

Frosty
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If it ain't forged
it ain't real.
Wrought iron is.
The FrostWorks

Meadow Lakes, AK.



From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
> On the downside, they've switched the aerosol cans 
> from the standard
> nozzle widget used on almost every aerosol can in the 
> world to a New
> and Improved version.
>
>    Old nozzle: Can falls head-down on floor.  Spend 
> 20 minutes
>    looking or nozzle in debris under bench. Reinsert 
> nozzle. If not
>    found, get another nozzle from the junk bin/coffee 
> can.  Insert
>    nozzle.
>
>    New nozzle: Can falls head-down on floor.  Nozzle 
> smashes into
>    several pieces.  Discard nearly full can of WD-40. 
> Go buy new
>    can. [1]
>
> Not to mention that in the interest of making it look 
> like you're
> getting more for less, the cans are now taller and 
> don't fit on the
> shelf where I keep the oiler, WD-40, belt dressing, 
> Fluid Film etc.
>
> Grump.
>
>
> - Mike
>
> [1] Yeah, yeah, there's Advanced Product Recovery. 
> Place can with
>    unusable nozzle in garbage bag. Tie with rubber 
> bands so that bag
>    is closed and can is held near top of bag. 
> Suspend from
>    tree. Shoot can with .22. Drain WD-40 from bottom 
> of bag.
>
>    All that for a crappy l'il nozzle?
>
> -- 
> Michael Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada 
> .~.
> 
> /V\



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