Mitch,
Ralph makes a great deal of sense. Its best to do damage that we know
how to repair with traditional building materials and methods, rather
than introducing new materials and new problems. But don't send the
plugs to the archives, keep them at the site. Try to keep a record of
what you did at the site. Maybe send a sample and a record to the
archives, but let's face it, when the time comes to plug the hole there
will be a mason and he will do what he thinks is best, without any
research...unless there's an architect running the show...in which case
the mason will do what he thinks is best without any research...or
he'll do what the architect tells him, which will have no research
behind it, and the mason will be doing it just so he can later say,
"hey! I just did what the architect told me to do!"
-jc
On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 05:18 PM, Ralph Walter wrote:
> In a message dated 5/9/2003 5:07:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> local granite - gneiss - capitol. A question has been raised
> regarding adhesives and stone. The designers have been instructed not
> to drill into the stone and are now looking at adhesives. Are there
> any adhesives which could be used to attach
> various various cameras and devices to stone and which could be
> cleaned up at some date prehaps way in the futures with nary a trace?
> No, I didn't think so. My view is to design the system so the stone
> would be not drilled or glued at all and to limit attachments to more
> repairable plaster surfaces.
>
>
>
> Mitch,
>
> Advise you try getting The Histo Presto Mafia to consider allowing the
> stone to be drilled after all, on the theory that the holes can be
> plugged with stone later. It may also buy the Histo Presto Mafia
> valuable brownie points with the Security Police, who are likely to be
> a lot more powerful than a bunch of old house huggers. Besides which,
> anything you mount in plaster is subject to the plaster deteriorating.
>
> Better yet, get the bolt holes cored into the stone, so that the
> cores can be saved (of course the State Archives will save these 1/2"
> diameter stone dowels forever, never break them, never throw them out,
> etc. etc) and reinstalled (in epoxy!) just as soon as the cameras
> (that will be outdated in 5 minutes) are removed because John Ashcroft
> has made the world safe for Republicanism.
>
> Uhhh...is this drilling being done into exposed interior plaster or
> exposed exterior stone?
>
> Ralph
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