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Date: Thu Apr 22 09:47:12 2004 Message-ID: <00db01c170c9$3596d7a0$6b4654d1_at_computer> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D8_01C17075.5C299C80 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My husband went to the Denver show and bought me a good size "new" Campo = del Cielo. Actually I wanted to try our hand at etching. It has been = sitting out on the shelf on a piece of paper since he brought it home = and today I noticed it was moist...actually it looked like it was = perspiring. Small red-brown spherical droplets of moisture were coming = from within and I am wondering what is happening, other than the obvious = rusting. If it is coming from within, does that mean there is moisture = in the rock? Should I cut it open and take a look? I have had a nantan = suddenly collapse into a mound of red-brown coarse powder shortly after = I purchased it. I know it is humid in Hawaii, but this rusting seems to = be coming from within. Any ideas? I wanted to steel brush it and coat = it with urethane but if it is in fact rusting from within, I think that = may only make it worse. I'd appreciate your thoughts. This is a very = humid climate=20 gheri fouts Honolulu, HI=20 "all science is either physics or stamp collecting" -- Ernest (1st Baron) Rutherford ------=_NextPart_000_00D8_01C17075.5C299C80 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>My husband went to the Denver show and = bought me a=20 good size "new" Campo del Cielo. Actually I wanted to try our hand = at=20 etching. It has been sitting out on the shelf on a piece of paper = since he=20 brought it home and today I noticed it was moist...actually it looked = like it=20 was perspiring. Small red-brown spherical droplets of moisture = were coming=20 from within and I am wondering what is happening, other than the obvious = rusting. If it is coming from within, does that mean there is = moisture in=20 the rock? Should I cut it open and take a look? I have had a = nantan=20 suddenly collapse into a mound of red-brown coarse powder shortly after = I=20 purchased it. I know it is humid in Hawaii, but this rusting seems = to be=20 coming from within. Any ideas? I wanted to steel brush it = and coat=20 it with urethane but if it is in fact rusting from within, I think that = may only=20 make it worse. I'd appreciate your thoughts. This is a very = humid=20 climate </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>gheri fouts</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Honolulu, HI </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>"all science is either physics or stamp = collecting"<BR>-- Ernest (1st Baron) = Rutherford</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00D8_01C17075.5C299C80-- Received on Mon 19 Nov 2001 02:09:50 AM PST |
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