Waterproofing a Car Cover
Dear Aunt Daisy, I would like you to tell me how to waterproof sheeting to use as a car cover. I tried to buy your hint book the other day, but they told me the books were sold out, and so I write to | you. I have made a car cover out of | four unbleached sheets and I just foreet what simple ingredients you_said to
use.
Pahautanui
Here are three methods;(1) Dissolve 1%4lb. alum in 5 gallons | of boiling water; then in a separate basin dissolve the samme quantity of sugar of lead in 5 gallons of water and mix the two solutions. The cloth is now worked well in this liquid until every. part is penetrated; it is squeezed or dried in the air or warm apartment, then. washed in cold water and dried again, when it is fit for use. If necessary the’ cloth may be dipped in the liquid and dried twice before washing. J (2) Take 3 pints of pale linseed oil; | loz. sugar of lead; and 4o0z. white resin. | Grind the sugar of lead with a small | quantity of the resin, and then mix. it well with the remainder. Gently | warm the resin with oil to make thern | mix well together. Apply the composi- | tion to the calico with a brush. (3) Mix together 20z. terebene and 1 quart boiled oil and apply it to canvas. | "Allow it to dry in the sun for a couple | of days, when the cover will be found | pertectly waterproof. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 27
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255Waterproofing a Car Cover New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 434, 17 October 1947, Page 27
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