No Bubbles casting

its_virgil · 07-08-2009, 10:51 PM

I am trying to change my casting routine. I've cast several label blanks and several more snake blanks without vacuum or pressure. So far it is working great. The labels don't surprise me since they have given me no problems at all. But, the snake skin blanks are bubble free and crystal clear. I'll try to post a picture of a snake pen tomorrow. I have 6 sets of blanks that were poured this evening with no pressure nor vacuum. More on these later...maybe tomorrow evening also. I'm excited. What a time saver this will be if the success continues.
Do a good turn daily!
don

DurocShark · 07-09-2009, 06:20 AM

Tease!

wood-of-1kind · 07-09-2009, 07:22 AM

Keep us posted Don. Are you still using Silmar 41, or something else?

rjwolfe3 · 07-09-2009, 07:54 AM

I hope you are successful!

cnirenberg · 07-09-2009, 08:27 AM

Don,
Please keep us posted on your progress, but do spill the beano, what are you using?

jleiwig · 07-09-2009, 08:53 AM

I have seen plans for a mixer online that you can make that will supposedly not introduce bubbles into your resin. Fishing rod builders use something similar sold by flexcoat. Not sure if Don is using anything like this, but I was considering it once I get my casting area setup.

johncrane · 07-09-2009, 10:26 AM

lam looking forward to your findings Don! thank you.

workinforwood · 07-09-2009, 12:29 PM

Sounds cool. I just put my first ever label casts in the pot. They are alumilite, but I see no bubbles and they look clear. Be interesting to see what you did and what you used.

Kaspar · 07-09-2009, 12:43 PM

Watching with great interest. I have some casting ideas of my own I'd like to try, but I'm very limited in my space and don't want to add a compressor and pressure pot to an small, already crowded area.

OKLAHOMAN · 07-09-2009, 12:49 PM

Sheeesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!,after I just bought another pot you find a way of not using it. Keep us posted.

07-08-2009, 10:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
its_virgil Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Wichita Falls, TX, USA. Posts: 5,049 Photos: 73	No Bubbles casting I am trying to change my casting routine. I've cast several label blanks and several more snake blanks without vacuum or pressure. So far it is working great. The labels don't surprise me since they have given me no problems at all. But, the snake skin blanks are bubble free and crystal clear. I'll try to post a picture of a snake pen tomorrow. I have 6 sets of blanks that were poured this evening with no pressure nor vacuum. More on these later...maybe tomorrow evening also. I'm excited. What a time saver this will be if the success continues. Do a good turn daily! don __________________ Don Ward aka its_virgil Wichita Falls, Texas www.RedRiverPens.com www.RedRiverPens.com/articles (pen stuff I've written)

07-09-2009, 06:20 AM	#2 (permalink)
DurocShark Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Anaheim, CA Posts: 3,564 Photos: 18	Tease! __________________ Don - In a Mickey Mouse town My Gold and Silver Blanks at ExoticBlanks

07-09-2009, 07:22 AM	#3 (permalink)
wood-of-1kind Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: ,Canada Photos: 264	Keep us posted Don. Are you still using Silmar 41, or something else? __________________ -Peter- http://www.wood-of-1-kind.webs.com/

07-09-2009, 07:54 AM	#4 (permalink)
rjwolfe3 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Mansfield, Ohio, USA. Posts: 8,398 Photos: 6	I hope you are successful! __________________ Rob A Wolfe Family Enterprises, LLC Business Click on links below for: Wolfe's Woodworking Blog Email * Website * Blog * Facebook

07-09-2009, 08:27 AM	#5 (permalink)
cnirenberg Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Fort Myers, Fl Posts: 2,372 Photos: 2	Don, Please keep us posted on your progress, but do spill the beano, what are you using? __________________ Cris A pencil without an eraser might as well be a pen.

07-09-2009, 08:53 AM	#6 (permalink)
jleiwig Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Dayton, Ohio, USA. Photos: 3	I have seen plans for a mixer online that you can make that will supposedly not introduce bubbles into your resin. Fishing rod builders use something similar sold by flexcoat. Not sure if Don is using anything like this, but I was considering it once I get my casting area setup. __________________ It's not the size of the shop, but how you use it! Justin

07-09-2009, 10:26 AM	#7 (permalink)
johncrane Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Posts: 6,657 Photos: 186	lam looking forward to your findings Don! thank you. __________________ SUCH IS LIFE. Down Under.

07-09-2009, 12:29 PM	#8 (permalink)
workinforwood Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Eaton Rapids, Michigan, USA. Posts: 7,844 Photos: 49	Sounds cool. I just put my first ever label casts in the pot. They are alumilite, but I see no bubbles and they look clear. Be interesting to see what you did and what you used. __________________ Jeff Powell, Master Scroller www.masterscroller.com

07-09-2009, 12:43 PM	#9 (permalink)
Kaspar Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Springfield, MO Posts: 1,085 Photos: 77	Watching with great interest. I have some casting ideas of my own I'd like to try, but I'm very limited in my space and don't want to add a compressor and pressure pot to an small, already crowded area. __________________ "That's what we all are. Amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else." - Charlie Chaplin "Remember: in all of your problems, the one, sure common denominator ... is you." - "Kaspar" www.pensbykaspar.com

07-09-2009, 12:49 PM	#10 (permalink)
OKLAHOMAN Join Date: May 2006 Location: SHAWNEE, OKLAHOMA, USA. Photos: 100	Sheeesh!!!!!!!!!!!!!,after I just bought another pot you find a way of not using it. Keep us posted. __________________ "THE CLASSIC NIB" WWW.CLASSICNIB.COM BOCK NIBS ,PLATED IN THE USA CLIPS AND THE ONLY SUPPLIER OF THE ORIGINALPAULHUFFMAN PEN VISE

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