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Over the years ive seen or heard of all kinds of glues used to fix/stabilize/repair fossils. One of the best ive found over the years is Cyanoacrylate. This glue comes in different viscosities. Its the thin viscosity that can be rather difficult at times. Ive seen guys use this glue for fish slabs that are starting to delaminate and it goes through the slab and onto their pant leg and glues everything together. Can be quite funny. Ive done the very same thing. What many people dont realize is that this glue can BURN! This last winter with -35 degree temperatures one of my bottles of glue cracked open and glued itself onto my prep bench. When I grabbed it and tried to pull it off the bench the bottom cracked wide open and started going all over the place! I immediatly grabbed a paper towel and tried to sop it up. HUGE mistake. besides gettting glue all over it instantly went through (wicking power) the towel and onto my thumb burning the tip in the process!! Blistard the tip of my thumb. Today the misses was lucky enough to walk into the garage and see me glue two fingers together. Burned too! I could tell you a lot more stories but you get the idea. Im sure most folks who are around fossils long enough have a story or two like this. RB

I recently got my paasche AECR set up. I had a bit of trouble with this as the canister originally sent to me was completely defective. I recieved a replacement canister and got it assembled and now I believe the pen to be defective as well I noticed immediately that I was getting good powder flow but almost no actual abrasion, and the powder seemed to collect on the fossil much more than normal. I quickly discovered that air was not moving out of the nozzle at an appropriate rate. If I understand the air path, air goes from the compressor to the pen, out the back of the pen to the canister, and returns to the pen carrying medium. It seems to me that the tube on the back of my pen was not sealed correctly, and a noticeable amount of air can be felt leaving this space as the pen runs. (A poor photo I know) To give an impression of the lost pressure, I was able to do some nice work on a corprolite from the GRF split layer, at 40 PSI! I'm wondering if this is something I could fix myself or should I contact paasche?