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View attachment 194321 Just spotted this, looks good stuff!
Yep saw that on Amazon. Not not enough info to evaluate properly
View attachment 194321 Just spotted this, looks good stuff!
Can you not just cement the two halfs in place and leave the crack ?
I’d be good with that but my mrs wants it to look perfect, she wanted to spend £400 on a piece of rock and I got the broken one for £50Can you not just cement the two halfs in place and leave the crack ?
I’d be good with that but my mrs wants it to look perfect, she wanted to spend £400 on a piece of rock and I got the broken one for £50
Think it is OIs it going to be moved or just sat there?
Could it fall over and squash someone or something?
I would use a pure epoxy like Hilti Hit RE500 (or what ever they call it now), or Buffalo PUE 500 or the Fisher equivalent
These type of chemical anchor take longer to cure (20hrs +) but stick far better to most materials than the others and are not affected by water. (Most will cure under water)
If there is a good bond area you will need nothing more than the epoxy.
By the by what sort of stone is that? I think the supplier is talking carp about drilling it.
Think it is Onyx, the guy said the guy gave him a price all in of 120 quid to drill a hole and he used 3 drills to drill one hole, after he finished the job he said he’d not do any more water features for him...Is it going to be moved or just sat there?
Could it fall over and squash someone or something?
I would use a pure epoxy like Hilti Hit RE500 (or what ever they call it now), or Buffalo PUE 500 or the Fisher equivalent
These type of chemical anchor take longer to cure (20hrs +) but stick far better to most materials than the others and are not affected by water. (Most will cure under water)
If there is a good bond area you will need nothing more than the epoxy.
By the by what sort of stone is that? I think the supplier is talking carp about drilling it.
I’d be good with that but my mrs wants it to look perfect, she wanted to spend £400 on a piece of rock and I got the broken one for £50
I worked backwards from 50kg, thinking tbere was 12lbs to a stone.?? 1cwt = 8st =112lbs
Don't know where you went to school Egg
14lb’s in a stone, 16oz’s in a lb!I worked backwards from 50kg, thinking tbere was 12lbs to a stone.
i went to a metric school.
Probably bond it to a plate for safety!get a grinder on the underside, collect the dust,dry it, mix it with the glue to give colour match, to get a strong fit and virtually no line grind the face of one piece where its cracked from the centre out to about 1/2" from the outer,(visible edge) this gives a hollow for the glue to sit in , you can just fill that hollow and squish together leaving the original edge to butt together ,if you dont overfill the hollow the edges will fit together perfect , if you underfill it wont have full strength.
Normally I would drill each side and use stainless re bar to re enforce the break.with correct resin, dont forget some where way down the line some else will move this eventually, can you imagine it snapping, smashing some ones foot and them being crippled for the rest of their lives...
there really are no short cuts when it weighs this much, as already stated pinning to a thick stainless plate would also be very good work and look great making a feature of the crack.
It's just so simple!14lb’s in a stone, 16oz’s in a lb!
It's just so simple!
Well it was, when it was all we had pre-decimalisation.
Now, about the 240 pennies we used to have waaaay back then, 12 pennies to each shilling and twenty shillings to the pound. Unless you dealt in guineas, when it was twenty one shillings to the guinea.......
And, silver thrupennies, 'ordinary' thrupennies, and sixpences, and florins, and half-crowns, and crowns.....
Who has it easy now, eh?