• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Sticky putty

selectortone

selectortone

Sapling
Joined
Jan 26, 2017
Messages
288
Reaction score
0
Location
Sunny Bournemouth by the Sea
I was doing some turning on Monday, went over to the back of the workshop where the grinder is, glanced out of the window and thought "Crikey, that window looks remarkably clean!" - until I realised the glass had fallen out. :lol:

The "workshop" is an old sectional concrete garage - not the prettiest structure but it's big, stays remarkably dry in the winter and warms up quickly with a small fan heater. It has four small panes of glass, about 2' x 9" set directly into apertures in the walls. I was lucky, the glass fell onto grass and was still intact. On further inspection the putty in all four windows needed replacing.

So... off to Wickes to buy some linseed oil putty. It's a long time since I did any glazing but I still remember the basics, or thought I did... cleaned out the frames of old debris and then pulled a handful of putty out of the pot and started to knead it with the intention of rolling it into a thin pipe to apply with my thumb. But it got REALLY sticky, really quickly to the point where most of it was stuck fast to my hands in a complete gooey mess. I don't remember linseed putty behaving like this? Or have I forgotten some intermediate step?

In the end (after cleaning the gooey mess of my hands and washing them), I made a reasonable job applying the putty directly to the frame and then the glass with the putty knife, but it took ages and I certainly couldn't make a living as a piece-work glazier!

What am I doing wrong? It was about 22 degrees out there - would that have any effect on the putty?
 
selectortone":114lzzeh said:
I was doing some turning on Monday, went over to the back of the workshop where the grinder is, glanced out of the window and thought "Crikey, that window looks remarkably clean!" - until I realised the glass had fallen out. :lol:

The "workshop" is an old sectional concrete garage - not the prettiest structure but it's big, stays remarkably dry in the winter and warms up quickly with a small fan heater. It has four small panes of glass, about 2' x 9" set directly into apertures in the walls. I was lucky, the glass fell onto grass and was still intact. On further inspection the putty in all four windows needed replacing.

So... off to Wickes to buy some linseed oil putty. It's a long time since I did any glazing but I still remember the basics, or thought I did... cleaned out the frames of old debris and then pulled a handful of putty out of the pot and started to knead it with the intention of rolling it into a thin pipe to apply with my thumb. But it got REALLY sticky, really quickly to the point where most of it was stuck fast to my hands in a complete gooey mess. I don't remember linseed putty behaving like this? Or have I forgotten some intermediate step?

In the end (after cleaning the gooey mess of my hands and washing them), I made a reasonable job applying the putty directly to the frame and then the glass with the putty knife, but it took ages and I certainly couldn't make a living as a piece-work glazier!

What am I doing wrong? It was about 22 degrees out there - would that have any effect on the putty?
Click to expand...

Here you go ....

If the Glazing compound is too soft: Avoid adding chalk to the compound when mixing. Warm the compound prior to mixing. Dust hands in chalk to prevent glazing compound from sticking.
Place and leave the compound on a piece of paper or card stock for as long as you need to create the consistency you desire. The raw linseed oil in the glazing compound will be drawn out, making the compound more firm. Or knead the compound on a piece of clean drywall; it does not take much effort to remove some of the raw linseed oil in the glazing compound to make it drier/harder.
 
I’m surprised you can still get it, are you sure it’s not some modern replacement?
 
When I first started working for my dad more years ago than I care to remember we used to use putty to fit taps & wastes, it was also used to seal lead sanitary fittings.
He used to buy it by the lb which was scooped out of a drum at the merchants & placed in news paper the effect of which was to soak up the excess linseed oil making it easier to work.

I don’t miss putty Plumbers mait is a far easier product to use for plumbing
 
I have started to use evo stick putty in a cartridge - just squeezes out with a standard cartridge gun in a nice thin bead. Available in wickes:

https://www.wickes.co.uk/Evo-Stik-Glazi ... l/p/143245

The reason I go for this stuff is that it will skin over in 4-6 hours and is paintable at that point, rather than waiting for sometimes weeks for the old fashioned stuff to dry enough for this.

The person who comes up with a putty that is overpaintable within 30 mins of application will make a forture - if I am doing a window I want to do it and forget about it, not have to troll back a week or two later to paint it, then again for a second coat etc!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top