USES OF ADHESIVE PLASTER IN CAMP and copper tacks. Should a submerged tree trunk jab a hole in the bottom of your Peterborough, there is needed a cover for it and a waterproofing compound over all to make the repair lasting. Caught in the Northern Lake wilderness in such a predicament without the standard repair kit at hand, one man mended his canoe by drying in the sunshine perfectly the surface around the hole. This he covered well with wide adhesive plaster strips, overlapping both inside and outside the canoe shell. This he covered with pitch secured from the nearby canvas, white lead, calor, varnish,
repair was waterproof and lasting. a cracked blade of a canoe paddle may be Similarly, treated; or if a handle be broken, whittle down the broken ends to rather long bevels which exactly fit one another and cover snugly with overlapping adforest,
and the
hesive strips.