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Re: durham water putty???
By:peter czerpak
Date: 4/24/2001, 8:50 am
In Response To: Re: durham water putty??? (Larry C.)

Your putty is flowable enough with all the wood flour, etc to still get pushed easily out of the dental syringe?? Did you add extra water to the mix then or just the stock amount of water....

pete czerpak
albany, NY

: Pete, I just added a little wood flour and micro ballons (both red and white)
: till I got to the color that looked good. I only had a few tiny spots on
: the whole boat to fill, so I don't have lots of experience with the
: Durhams. I used a mehod I have been using with epoxy filler previously to
: fill the cracks. I tape, with masking tape, each side of the crack and
: force the slurry into the void with a putty knife and remove the tape.
: This leaves a very narrow filled area to sand. I sometimes use a dental
: syringe to apply the filler.

: Larry C.

Messages In This Thread

durham water putty???
peter czerpak -- 4/20/2001, 2:09 pm
Re: durham water putty???
Don Sherwood -- 4/21/2001, 5:15 pm
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John Monfoe -- 4/21/2001, 5:56 am
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Larry C. -- 4/20/2001, 5:26 pm
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peter czerpak -- 4/23/2001, 11:03 am
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Larry C. -- 4/23/2001, 5:39 pm
Re: durham water putty???
peter czerpak -- 4/24/2001, 8:50 am
Re: durham water putty???
Larry C. -- 4/24/2001, 7:00 pm
Re: durham water putty???
Jim -- 4/20/2001, 4:07 pm
Re: Durham's water putty
Dave Houser -- 4/20/2001, 3:17 pm
Re: durham water putty???
Mitch Isoe -- 4/20/2001, 3:08 pm