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I have a lot of sleepers forming retaining walls, with this hot weather
they are exuding a thick tar like substance, which I assume is creosote.
Any ideas of an economical way of either stopping this of covering the
sleepers? The damned stuff gets everywhere working or walking by them!
I am not concerned about the EEC directive, just the mess.

It's pitch, and apart from refrigerating or shading the sleepers, I have
no solution.

Well, I suppose you could cover them with thin exterior ply (or
shuttering, which is fairly cheap.).

You can scatter sand on/at the exuded stuff to stop it sticking to things.

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Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
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from Broadback contains these words:


I have a lot of sleepers forming retaining walls, with this hot weather
they are exuding a thick tar like substance, which I assume is creosote.
Any ideas of an economical way of either stopping this of covering the
sleepers? The damned stuff gets everywhere working or walking by them!
I am not concerned about the EEC directive, just the mess.


It's pitch, and apart from refrigerating or shading the sleepers, I have
no solution.

Well, I suppose you could cover them with thin exterior ply (or
shuttering, which is fairly cheap.).

You can scatter sand on/at the exuded stuff to stop it sticking to things.

Thank you all for your replies. My apologies if I upset anyone by
asking the same question here and on D-I-Y, in my ignorance I thought
that was preferable to cross posting.

Broadback wrote:
Thank you all for your replies. My apologies if I upset anyone by
asking the same question here and on D-I-Y, in my ignorance I thought
that was preferable to cross posting.

You haven't upset *me*, anyway - I just thought I'd mention
that cross-posting is better (for most proper uses) - see
other post in re. J d'A. Good luck with your sleeper-scraping!

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from Broadback contains these words:

Thank you all for your replies. My apologies if I upset anyone by
asking the same question here and on D-I-Y, in my ignorance I thought
that was preferable to cross posting.

Don't worry - the only rule in Usenet is that there are no rules - just
accepted practice, and you learn that as you go along.

--
Rusty
Open the creaking gate to make a horrid.squeak, then lower the foobar.
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/