OK, this is gonna be one of those “I Really Feel Stupid” posts.
I remember a post a couple of months ago that either started or got on the subject of using Milliput. I haven’t had a lot of experience with it, and thankfully I mentioned that in my post. I said something about it being dry and crumbly and asked if anyone new a way to make it softer and more pliable. Someone mentioned trying water and I had to sheepishly admit that I had not tried that.
Tonight I needed to plug a hole and about the only thing I could think of that I had onhand that would do it was Milliput. So, I got it out, mixed some of the crumbly, flaky stuff up, added a couple of drops of water. Hmmmmm … this stuff is starting to settle down. Added a couple more and it got better again. Kept adding drops of water and it got about like modeling clay, or in other words, about the consistency I thought it would be like.
When I got finished I figured, what the heck, maybe I’ll take a look at the instructions. Of course, big as day in black in white, right where I didn’t see it the first time I glanced through the instructions it said that “Milliput responds to water throughout the entire curing process.”
Soooooo … my thanks to whoever it was that pointed out that using water might soften Milliput. To everyone else, the instructions are there for a reason and we really should take the time to read them THOROUGHLY. And now I’m gonna go hang my head in shame [xx(]