[AT] funny..

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Sat Oct 28 13:23:28 PDT 2006


Henry I think it's the clear part of the guage he is saying is broken.
That's why I said clear epoxy.  Personally if could get a couple of more 
years out of it before it clowded over then I'd just deal with the problem 
again then.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henry Miller" <hank at millerfarm.com>
To: <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] funny..


> About 15 years ago my Grandpa fixed a few with cement, and it worked 
> great, if
> you don't know what to look for it is hard to tell.    I don't know if he
> used a form, or just some stiff mortar.   Experiment on a few stones first 
> I
> guess.
>
> I wouldn't use Epoxy - UV from the sun will destroy most epoxy in short 
> order.
>
> On Saturday 28 October 2006 11:39, Steve W. wrote:
>> Francis Robinson wrote:
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > Don't know if you guys are trying to be morbid  with all this cemetery
>> > talk or just trying to get in the season with Halloween next week
>> >
>> >
>> > A cemetery morbid??? Not to a genealogist...   ;-)
>> > There is a TV commercial on now that shows a couple getting all upset
>> > because they just looked out the window and discovering that outside of
>> > the window of their great hotel room is a huge very old cemetery. They
>> > start preparing to leave at once. If that were a genealogist the 
>> > reaction
>> > would be "COOL!!!! Let's go look..."   ;-)   ;-)
>> > As a parallel, imagine looking out of your new hotel window and seeing 
>> > a
>> > huge collection of restored antique tractors, each with a story to 
>> > tell.
>> >
>> > :)
>> >
>> > --
>> > "farmer"
>> >
>> > The brave may not live forever but the easily frightened may never live
>> > at all.
>> >
>> > Francis Robinson
>> > Central Indiana, USA
>> > robinson at svs.net
>>
>> There are a few OLD cemeteries around here that folks seem to just
>> ignore. I have been attempting to restore the one behind our fire
>> station to some semblance of order by filling in the collapsed graves
>> and straightening headstones. I would love to repair the iron fence
>> around it and cut down the sumac trees as well but so far the town
>> doesn't like that idea. Maybe I'll just have to do it anyway.... I hear
>> it is easier to get forgiveness than permission sometimes.
>> I have to find some good epoxy for a couple stones, they are the nice
>> carved marble ones with huge finials on the tops and a couple have lost
>> the top ball. Any suggestions out there. I talked to a local memorial
>> outfit and was told that THEY repair stones but don't tell others how.
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