Re: I need ideas for sticking pumpkin back together!

Hi Steve,
 
Just a thought, how about using the fabric that they make casts out of, it hardens and dries quickly.
 
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De : S*@aol.com <S*@aol.com>
À : pumpkins@mallorn.com <pumpkins@mallorn.com>
Date : 16 novembre, 1998 08:55
Objet : Re: I need ideas for sticking pumpkin back together!

In a message dated 98-11-16 01:09:38 EST, you write:

> Steve,
>  I'm so sorry for your experience. It is good to here your moving forward
> past
>  your anger and focusing back on your pumpkin! As for putting it back
> together
>  I'll give you my ideas. I'd forget commercial glues and try something
sticky
>  like molasses. I'd coat all pieces with the molasses and use toothpicks to
>  hold them together. I'd also stuff the pumpkin with something water proof
> like
>  foam rubber or crumpled up plastic or a tarp to support the pieces from the
>  inside. Good luck!
> 
>  Alan R.                         

Well, as for the other responses of superglue, (I am guessing that was a
joke), obviously that only works on non porous, dry material. And as for
"forgetting about it", well you have to understand, this is my first 250+
pound pumpkin, and I spent every day, ALL summer, in the blazing heat to the
freezing cold of these fall nights to cover and put gallons and gallons of hot
water bottles under the covers and tents to protect from frost, EVERY NIGHT.
You would not beleive how much work and time went into it, and cost. After all
that, I THINK I want something to show for it, not a pile of pieces because
some idiot thinks he has the right to destroy other property that they worked
all summer on. It might also be the ONLY pumpkin I will ever have had the
chance to grow, since I might not be able to next year. So it would be
SENSELESS to let it go and not at least try some sort of reconstruction of all
that I have worked on for the last 5 months. I don't think it is far fetched
at all.
To Alan, thanks for the idea about molasses, but do you really think that
would work?! I mean it seems that it would just slide right apart, and it
doesn't exactly harden enough to offer enough adhesion to hold hundreds of
pound of pieces together (does it)? The toothpick idea sounds good, to tack
all of the pieces together. I might have to find something stronger than
wooden toothpicks though. I don't know. I came up with a strange idea last
night, also. If I tacked together pieces to form big sections, then covered
the inside part with plastic, and molded fiberglass resin into each section,
then hotglued all of the fiberglass understructure together, the pumpkin could
be reconstructed around that, each piece attached to each other and the
understructure. Of course your idea about the tarp or foam rubber inside might
be enough if the pieces can be tacked together and adhered enough to stay
together.

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