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How about cement in a pie plate or simple wooden mold and a chop
stick or knitting needle. Designs could be incised or objects
imbedded into the cement to spiff them up. I'm thinking along the
lines of the garden stepping stones that I see kits for in the craft
stores. Something like a plastic chop stick or aluminum knitting
needle could be easily inserted, removed, replaced. You can also add
pigments to the cement to make it look more like clay or brick.
Don Stidsen
On Nov 1, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Marc Taylor wrote:
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> I'm looking for a material which could be used by visitors in a
> workshop or class (minimum one hour in length) to make sundials
> suitable for installation and use outside.
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> So the material needs to be:
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> weatherproof (waterproof, rigid, able to take a pigeon landing on
> it, a cat attacking the pigeon, and a blast from a garden hose
> intended to discipline the cat)
> easy to work with (lost-wax bronze casting is out)
> cheap (clay is cheap but this museum does not have a kiln -- there
> may be one nearby)
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> I'm out of that wonder material, unobtanium, and I'm looking for a
> substitute.
>
> Marc Taylor
> Coordinator, Andrus Planetarium
> Hudson River Museum
> 511 Warburton Avenue
> Yonkers, NY 10701
> 914 963 4550 x223
> Fax 963 8558
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