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modified acrylic polymers?

updated fri 31 aug 01

 

Paul Lewing on wed 29 aug 01


on 8/29/01 8:57 PM, cd at haywyre@CYBERTRAILS.COM wrote:

> Not a very ceramic sounding title, but... does anyone have a source for =
> some of this stuff. It is used as an additive in commercaily available =
> grout

Most grout these days has this stuff in it in the dry powder form, but it
used to be, when they first started making acrylic grout, you had to mix the
dry grout with a liquid acrylic. You may still be able to find some of that
stuff at tile suppliers.
Paul Lewing, Seattle

Fredrick Paget on wed 29 aug 01


You can buy it in large plastic jugs in the tile department of Home Depot
(which is a large chain of stores here in the US). No doubt other tile
stores carry it too.
The thin set tile adhesive ( a sort of portland cement and sand mixture)
is supposed to be mixed with it instead of water.
It appears to be about the same stuff as white glue (Elmer's Glue is one
brand) or concrete bonding adhesive except there is more water in it.
Fred


.. does anyone have a source for
>some of this stuff. It is used as an additive in commercaily available
>grout, and rumor has it that this is one of the secret ingredients in
>Coleman's Porcelain.
>Any leads checked out and reported back.
>Thanks,
>Craig

From Fred Paget, Marin County, California, USA

cd on wed 29 aug 01


Not a very ceramic sounding title, but... does anyone have a source for =
some of this stuff. It is used as an additive in commercaily available =
grout, and rumor has it that this is one of the secret ingredients in =
Coleman's Porcelain.
Any leads checked out and reported back.

Thanks,

Craig