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Johnsons Klear & Ballast

Andy Y

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In finishing off the Mermaid modded here I thought I'd try the household cleaning aisle's wonder-stuff Klear for it's ballasting properties. A dry mix of ballast was placed in the weighted load area of the Mermaid, the Klear was given isopropyl alcohol and a blob of washing up liquid as additives and sprayed straight onto the dry mix. It soaked in like a dream with virtually no disturbance of the dry ballast. A few hours later it's rock hard. Any slight sheen is taken off with subsequent matt spray varnishing. I shall definitely be using that to speed up the ballasting process in future.

 

Hoard secured.

 

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Captain Kernow
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Nice idea, using the Klear for that purpose. Pardon my ignorance, but where would one obtain Isopropyl Alcohol?

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Andy Y

Our local independent chemist will order in 500ml bottles for around a fiver which should keep me going a few years as I prefer my clear alcohol to be from Russia or Mexico. :)

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Mikkel
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This is a great idea Andy, we'll need to catalogue that in the RMweb Index when the time comes.

 

I wonder if any type of alcohol would do? Maybe worth an experiment tonight (no seriously!).

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