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Krylon Rattle can H20 paints work great on foam

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#1

Someone may have made a post about this water base paint One problem working with foam has been getting the right paint. Most spray can paints will ruin foam , just dissolve the foam. Leaving a melted mess. H2O paint is water base paint in a spray can. Over spray clean up with soap and water up to 20 minutes after you spray. No waiting for a second, third coat of paint. 15 minutes drying time. Tried it on the tunnel portal and some buildings all made with unpainted blue foam. Worked great.

Now I have to see if I can use acrylic and acrylic latex paints to finish them. At present I saw only eight different colors on the shelf. The only place I could find H2O paint was at Wal-Mart. I’m using a light tan color as a base color in the pictures. Yogi Bellaire, ohio

#2

I’ll have to check out the hardware store here in town. They have a good selection of spray paints, including a bunch of industrial machinery colors. Hope they have this stuff, too.

#3

Why are there holes in all of your stones?

#4

Cause quarried stones look like that!

#5

Does anyone know, are the “dimples” for picking up the stone or part of the cutting and blasting process? In seeing this process in the past, I thought I had come up with the facts, that they are not always centered and some stones don’t have any or may have a dimple mark on the edge. Giving the idea they may be part of the cutting or blasting process.

#6

In general , stonework in the UK does not exhibit these holes , except where cut for support of scaffolding . So you see them in odd places on castles and cathedrals .
I doubt they would be handling holes , because stone is usually picked up using its own weight to close a grip
which the stonemasons use . This would not render a hole like those shown .
This grip is shaped and works like a pair of scissors , but with curly arms --imagine a figure 8 with the top and bottom cut off , with the centre pivoted exactly as in scissors .
The lower bit goes either side of the stone , then the top is squeezed together by the action of lifting . Thus , the heavier the stone , the tighter the grip . A big clamp . Like delivery forceps , for the baby bogglers . Or ice tongs if you are in your dotage and remember them.
Of course , the handling of stone in the USA may be completely different from the UK , but imagining a stone block pivoting round the central hole gives me cause to wear a hard hat .
Hey , we have woodpeckers , why not stonepeckers ? There’s all sorts of mysteries out there we don’t know about . Like why did they not examine me before they voted against euthenasia ?
Mike
ps Ric , I am basically agreeing with you , but doubt they’re from blasting , the rock drills leave a very smooth finish . Blasting powder leaves a smelly star shaped dent . So , who knows ? Come on , there must be a few of you have been breaking rocks around the USA . Throw off your chains and come forth .

#7

Before this goes off at a tangent , nice stonework , I like the technique . Well done .
Mike

#8

I see Mike made it beore me. Most stone came ruff-cut and was cut to size on site. The stone work shown here was cut to size where the City Park is now. The holes in the stones are for lifting the stones in place.

The lifting tongs look like the ice tongs they used to handle cakes of ice.

There was an oval ring through eyes in the top of the tongs. The holes in the stone were to keep the tongs from slipping when hoisting the stone in place. The tongs were placed with the points in the holes in the stone. When the slack was taken out of the haul line the oval ring would pull the top of the tongs together and the bottom points would grip the stone in the holes. You can check here for more stone work. The Roman arches in the bridge approach are some of the last remaining stone work on the B&O in this area. http://users.stratuswave.net/~wd8jik/bridge/bellaire.htm

#9

Aha !!!
The holes are nearer to the top than previously believed , it now makes sense . I think that your drawing is also a better description than my verbosity gave . But , you have probably noticed , I like to talk . Thank you for allowing me .
Mike
ps the stone masons of old England must be a load of mad buggers then , they don’t desecrate the stone , just grab it with tongs . Perhaps their stonework is full of holes anyway . Like my theories .

#10

Yet another mystery solved right here on Large Scale Central!

#11

Yes , Tom , you saw it here first . What a collection of experts we are . By golly , we could almost run a model railway between us . But I baggies first go .
Mike