[papercreters] Re: celluloso-- another version?

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Charmaine Taylor <charmainertaylor@...> wrote:
<snip> ... it must have agents that
> waterpoof it too.
>
> or you can place a coat of 'waterglass' on it... read up on this stuff, a
> gelatinous liquid, about $35, gallon used to go over natural clay and paint
> walls.I coated a metal drum with the lime+paper mix, and coated it ith
> waterglass, and it sits outside in the garden as a big planter, in our
> rainy PNW and the plaster is still dry and perfect, no erosion.
>
> its an idea for a cheap, light reflecting, burn resistant coating for any
> material it can stick to. ( on the steel drum I first did a coat of asphalt
> emulsion then embedded fine mesh netting and then sawdust crete as the
> under layer to hold the lime+paper .. it really works great.<snip>


Charmaine: Did you buy waterglass by the gallon, or did you make it?

Have started reading up on it and am very interested in experimenting with it.

If you bought it, premixed, can you name a brand and tell us what kind of store or supplier you purchased it from. BEFORE I'd read up on it, I asked about it at Home Depot and Lowes in the paint departments and the employees knew nothing of it.


Here are a few links about it, if anyone's interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate

http://chemistry.about.com/od/makechemicalsyourself/a/make-sodium-silicate.htm

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/637082/water-glass

Best,
ken



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