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Painted Mattress Survival Boat

Step 14Wet Patch

Wet Patch
The sewing is good for large patches where there's some load on the cloth, but a bunch of the holes are small. What to do? As an experiment Cyrus tries a "wet patch". Jane cuts him a rounded patch of sheet with pinking shears. He sticks it onto the wet paint and then paints over it. It adheres very well. This must be good paint.

This is the fast way to do patching for small holes. Before long the boat is all patched up and ready for new adventures!
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Tim Anderson is the author of the "Heirloom Technology" column in Make Magazine. He is co-founder of www.zcorp.com, manufacturers of "3D Printer" output devices. His detailed drawings of traditional ...
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