04-25-2010, 03:40 AM
Hmmm - some one feels somewhat less than totally bright ....
Seems like when the instructions for hydrocal says to mix "2.5 parts hydrocal to 1 part water", they don't really mean "mix 2.5 waters with 1 part hydrocal". I did think "that looks kinda thin", but shrugged and poured it on anyways.
Instant runoff through some very small cracks that hadn't leaked when it did the first coat of hydrocal. Said something my wife would not have approved of me saying in front of the kids, got a bunch of rags and started wiping up the gunk.
Then mixed a new batch - this time using the correct proportions of hydrocal and water, and did a second coat on the harbor area.
Oh well - at least we (me, wife and our two boys) got to take part in kitbashing a 99 1/4 foot tall Lego tower in downtown Oslo yesterday - Norway now has the current record for tallest lego structure (for as long as it lasts). Here is the tower at the half way mark, at 10:30 am on Saturday - it was twice as tall by 4:30 pm:
![[Image: CIMG0232.jpg]](http://i404.photobucket.com/albums/pp124/steinjr_1965/kids/2010/04/CIMG0232.jpg)
Smile,
Stein
Seems like when the instructions for hydrocal says to mix "2.5 parts hydrocal to 1 part water", they don't really mean "mix 2.5 waters with 1 part hydrocal". I did think "that looks kinda thin", but shrugged and poured it on anyways.
Instant runoff through some very small cracks that hadn't leaked when it did the first coat of hydrocal. Said something my wife would not have approved of me saying in front of the kids, got a bunch of rags and started wiping up the gunk.
Then mixed a new batch - this time using the correct proportions of hydrocal and water, and did a second coat on the harbor area.
Oh well - at least we (me, wife and our two boys) got to take part in kitbashing a 99 1/4 foot tall Lego tower in downtown Oslo yesterday - Norway now has the current record for tallest lego structure (for as long as it lasts). Here is the tower at the half way mark, at 10:30 am on Saturday - it was twice as tall by 4:30 pm:
Smile,
Stein