Re: Small Accident yesterday..

Lloyd E. Sponenburgh wrote:

A major manufacturer of gerbs (not us) drills all of his gerbs, rather than
pressing a pre-formed nozzle.

Clark's Giant "Steel" (Fe, really) Fountain calls for auguring thru a
clay plug and forming a bore, but I wouldn't. OTOH in my same-compo
1.5" fountains (compo dampened with alcohol to between batter & dough
consistency), even with plenty of Vaseline on the dowel I cast the bore
& putty plug around, sometimes it gets stuck after hardening. Brass is
less sticky, but I don't have enough brass cylinders to go around, and
the one I do have is inconveniently long & heavy. Recently I wound up
destroying in situ a soft wood dowel stuck in such condition, and that
included some electric drilling, trying to make sure the bit didn't
enter the compo. I left some wood in there, so the bore's going to be
partly blocked when I fire it New Year's. I didn't want to shoot it in
the street July 4, because I don't know what effect that piece of wood
is going to have on its performance; Jan. 1 I'll have more space.
Memorial Day & July 4 I fired the other two whose dowels didn't get
stuck.

Think wax on the dowel would be more effective than petroleum jelly?
It has to resist the alcohol the compo is dampened with.

Robert

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