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by Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor Above: The cracked polyurethane foam planter pot upon which Tom performed this simple pot repair with epoxy. You can see the household cling wrap he used to hold the cracked pot together while the epoxy cured. My wife Mary and I recently went to the local building center […]
Statue Repairs with Epoxy by Bill Bertelsen, GBI Test Engineer Above: Statue repairs are underway on “Shep,” a molded fiberglass figure that was knocked off its base and belongs in the outdoor nativity set of St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Essexville, Michigan. Creating lasting outdoor art has challenged humans since the dawn of time. […]
A good method for particleboard furniture repair by Tom Pawlak — GBI Technical Advisor Above: Particleboard furniture repair can be tricky when screws strip out. G/5 Five Minute Epoxy Adhesive offers an easy solution to fixing inexpensive furniture when this happens. I recently broke the leg off an old workshop table. The tabletop was made […]
And made it better than new! By Bruce Niederer — GBI Technical Advisor Backyard pools can be a joy. They can also be an expensive, time-consuming headache. While I don’t have any ideas about how you might escape the cleaning and chlorination chores, I do have an idea that might save you the cost of replacing […]
by The Restoration Clinic staff The Restoration Clinic of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. completed major repairs on the Cartagena Shoes statue, a pair of seven foot by four foot shoes weighing one ton each. In Coral Gables’ Cartagena Plaza near the University of Miami, the shoes are a well-known fixture. They were smashed by a falling tree […]
