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Red Top Plaster now sets new quality standard ELIMINATES GREATEST CAUSE OF PLASTER COMPLAINTS NO one but the man who has handled a trowel Just imagine a plaster that can be.sanded one or worked at the mixing box can fully ap to one for scratch coat over metal lath and then preciate the change that has been made in plastienr the next batch sanded three to one for brown by the new improvements in RedTop Wall Plaster. coat without a change in the setting time! With These improvements put an end to the greatest old type plaster the difference would be hours, cause of plaster complaints--wide variation in set with Red Top the difference now is ordinarily ting time, slow set and quick set. Regardless of the only a matter of minutes.' amount of sand used, whether fine sand or coarse Imagine a plaster that can be used with varying sand, or even eccelerating sand this new RedTop amounts of sand as required in standard specifica sets in regular time. It even holds its uniform set tions for scratch coat over different bases, metal ting time against dirty water, and most of the lath, Rocklath, insulating lath, wood lath, brick, accelerating effect of set-up gypsum in the mixing gypsum tile and clay tile, without any appreciable box or mixing water. change in setting time! Red Top Plaster now Red Top is more than ever a plasterer's plaster eliminates the differences in setting time caused because it does the things the plasterer wants it to do. by these different bases. RED TOP PLASTER SETS IN REGULAR TIME 1. With little sand or much sand. 2. With clean sand or dirty sand. 3. With tine sand or coarse sand. 4. With clean water or dirty water. 5. It sets from the lath out, instead of from the surface in, as old plas ters set. This gives you more time to straighten, darby, trowel and float the surface. 6. It sets evenly, not in spots, and once it starts, sets quickly. 7. It even holds against most of the accelerating action caused by dirty tools and set up gypsum in the mixing water and mixing box. 8. It eliminates dryouts and differ ences in setting time caused by hot and cold weather. 9. It keeps its plasticity and work ing qualities in the standard USG bag for one year. 10. It is the nearest approach to a trouble -proof plaster yet produced. Manufactured under U. S. Patents 1,683,539 and 1,989,641. B B 026 U 8 6 UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY Copy No. 339--L6903--finished--Plasterer 1 Page June, 1935 J2412--2 Improvements in RED TOP PLASTER cross out half of plaster "donts" ORE than ever Red Top plaster is M a plasterer's plaster. It is so vastly The Old List of "Don'ts" improved that the hazard of change in 1. Keep moisture away from plas setting time has been taken out of it. . ter before mixing. 2 Have lath conditions right. Announced as the greatest improve ment ever made in plaster, this change 3. Keep set-up plaster out of mix. 4. Mix material as needed. 5. Sweat outs. has knocked out over half of the pre cautions formerly necessarywith plaster. 6. Over sanding. 7. Use only clean water. 8. Look to your sand. Here is the old list of plaster "don'ts" just as they have been published for 9. Caution for mechanical mixers. 10. Keep plastered walls from dry ing out. years. They are copied from the USG Red Book of Building Materials. Read 11. Screen openings. 12. Slow Set. 13. Quick Set. them and then compare them with the new list at the right. The difference is 14. Short working plaster. 15. Dirty sand. 16. Too fine--Too coarse--sand. the difference between Red Top as it is made today and old-type plasters. V The New Revised List of "Don'ts" 1. Keep moisture away from plas ter before mixing. 2. Have lath conditions right. 3. Keep set-up plaster out of mix. 4. Mix material as needed. 5. Sweat outs. 6. Over sanding. Red Top Plaster is Guaranteed e Manufactured under U. S. Patents 1,683,539 and 1,989,641. BB026 H-87 UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY r'XTa 1 1 7 T /Cci<^ R...a. qntl PIaefAfi MO A Time 1Q*S T?4fi5--%