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 just as soon as the cameras (that will be outdated in 5 minutes) are removed because John Ashcroft has made the world safe for Republicanism.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