Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:14:49 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: Rust Demons
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Poetic license in poem and prose - no place for corrections there.
Poets prerogative to use the language at will.
I got a tickle out of the play - "griddled lions" as opposed to "girdled
loins!"
John
John Rodgers
Clayartist and Moldmaker
88'GL VW Bus Driver
Chelsea, AL
Http://www.moldhaus.com
On 6/16/2011 2:15 PM, Alistair Bell wrote:
> For someone who corrects other's spelling mistakes, you have a lot of
> gall Scott.
>
> :)
>
> "Oshpro"? you mean Ospho
>
> "spary"? did you mean sparry, a crystalline mineral?
>
> "bascially"? please define.
>
> "Epozy" is that a new epoxy?
>
> "which is easily treated and stopped forever just about." make up your
> mind, does it or doesn't it?
>
> And besides all that, girdle and griddle are more closely related than
> you think. Girdle is the N. English and Scottish variation of griddle.
>
> Isn't it annoying when someone corrects another's spelling and use of
> English?
>
> alistair
>
>
> On 16-Jun-11, at 11:15 AM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans wrote:
>
>> What poetic writing.
>> I thought one 'girded' ones loins though.
>> or close to that..but not 'griddled' .
>>
>> sounds like you're havin' fun now !
>> I love treating and fixing rust on vanagons.
>> I regard rust as falling into two main catagories...
>> 'surface rust' which is easily treated and stopped forever just about.
>>
>> and 'body cancer rust' ..
>> where you're replacing missing metal.
>>
>> on surface rust ..
>> I use Oshpro sometimes..
>> watch out with that stuff, it'll etch a concrete floor badly.
>> on one car of mine ..to get it up inside frame rails..way back in
>> there..
>> I got one of those motorized dental spray 'water-pic' things from a
>> drug
>> store..
>> that'll spary two feet back into a channel.. It's rough on the water-
>> pic
>> though. Doesn't last too long, but gets the job done nicely.
>>
>> I also use 'rust converter' paint as a primer.
>> I use 'self-etching' primer ..
>> bascially ..
>> treat the metal,
>> primer it..
>> then paint with good paint.
>>
>> I have seen many two part epozy paints that 'cover' ..
>> but they don't really bond with the metal.
>> you want a primer or very good paint that really 'gets in' the
>> metal, not
>> just cover it.
>
>
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