Bend Sheet Metal Without a Brake
The bend won't be quite as sharp, but as Michael P. Keyes, carpenter and furniture maker in Dawsonville, Maryland, demonstrates in this video, suitable bends can be made for many construction projects. Today's handsaws cut all kinds of material ... [... more]
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Cellulose Derivatives: Modification, Characterization, ...
 With contributions from many of the leaders in the field, this volume describes polysaccharide derivatives and new methods with unusual derivatives. It also highlights methods for modifying cellulose, nature's most abundant polymer, to make it accessible [... more]
$40.95
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Quality Assurance Of Polymeric Materials And Products ...
Quality Assurance Of Polymeric Materials And Products (astm Special Technical Publication// Stp) [... more]
$18.42
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Why Exterior Finishes Fail
Ever wonder why the paint starts to peel off your house much sooner than you expect? A trio of authors from the USDA Forest Products Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin, explain it in this article. A sidebar offers three suggestions for making your ... [... more]
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What Are Structural Insulated Panels?
Structural Insulated Panels (SIPs), a "new" building material that has actually been in use since the 1940s, consist of two outer skins and an inner core of an insulating material to form a monolithic unit. Most structural panels use either ... [... more]
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Big Boy Blocks
Commercial pavers hold back a lot of earth in residential landscapes. When Bob Hampton built his dream home on a Nebraska hillock, the best views on the site came at a steep price: a nearly vertical backyard. Hampton considered the option of ... [... more]
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Concrete Mix Design
A wide range of colors is possible with both powdered and liquid pigments. Most of these Syndecrete colors are combinations from a basic set of primary colors in white cement. Entirely different tones and hues are achieved by using gray ... [... more]
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Installing Housewrap
There's more to installing housewrap than getting out a utility knife and stapler. This article explains how it should be installed to get the maximum benefit from this commonplace building material. A sidebar discusses the merits of taping ... [... more]
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Angel Bear Yoga Playing Cards
Yoga Pretzels is Better: I ordered this yoga card deck with the intention of using it with my three year old who loves the books "My Daddy is a Yoga Pretzel," "Little Yoga," and "Sleepy Little Yoga." We also use YogaKids [... more]
$20.00
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New materials and products will spur machinery ...
Author: J.G. Sommer Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 14 Publication Date: 1989-10-01 Release Date: 2005-07-28 [... more]
$5.95
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Quality Assurance of Polymeric Materials and Products ...
Author: Francis T. Green Author: Robert W. Miller Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 668.9 EAN: 9780803104082 ISBN: 0803104081 Number Of Pages: 142 Publication Date: 1985-02 [... more]
$24.00
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Making Sense of Caulks and Sealants
A trip to the home center for a tube of caulk can be a befuddling experience. Water-base caulks boast performance capabilities once available only in silicone. Silicone caulks advertise paintability and water cleanup. And new synthetic-rubber and ... [... more]
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