In a message dated 7/10/99 2:41:35 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

> a steel wire stand and coat it with a
>commercial prepartation called Plasi Dip (it's marketed primarily as a
>coating for tool handles)

What's in it, what does it smell like, what do you use to clean it up, who
makes it?

Conservators often coat metal mounts in silicone gel and cut mats of it to
anchor objects to and isolate them from  the mounts. They just squirt it out
of a tube or pour it out from a jar of commercially formulated silicone. It's
sticky and inert.

The Corning Museum of Glass in Corning New York must have the best advice:
they have mounted every kind of glass thing including a telescope mirror
twenty feet across and 16 inches thick, or thereabouts.

David Formanek
USS Constitution Museum
Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum

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