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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] painting concrete
From: "Roger (K8RI) on TT" <K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 03:53:04 -0500
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My shop has many coats of 2 part epoxy.

I needed to cut some wood on the table saw and didn't have a dust collector yet, so I laid down several sheets of polyethylene. That worked great, except... there was some very fine dust that made its way past the sheets. I took one steep onto the painted floor. The only time I ever went down that fast and hard, was forgetting to take the guards off my ice skated. That hurt! At least I didn't break anything. At the W end of the shop, the S side has an 8' garage door. I simply rented a very heavy, orbital sander and used a coarse sand paper to do a strip 8' wide from that door across the end of the shop. It worked as well inside and left a better finish than using sand or an anti slip compound.

The aprons for the garage and shop are painted with epoxy "with a lot of sand mixed in!

73

Roger (K8RI)

On 2/6/2017 2:57 PM, greenacres113@charter.net wrote:

        You want to paint tower bases go to it. However, I beg you not to
paint concrete steps & walks. Unless you use the 'sand' paint or other
textured gripper paint. You can't imagine how slippery painted
concrete is when wet. As a retired postal carrier I know. Two of my
fellow carriers got their arms broken on painted concrete. If you
insist on painting steps & walks please add the wide stick- on grip
pads. The law suit you save might be yours. I lost a full uniform [
big $$$] because a teenager drained a car radiator down a sloping
concrete driveway. The homeowner bought me a new uniform & was
thrilled I didn't break any bones. Been there done that.

        K9IL
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