A tough Lesson on Alumilite, Why on a steampunk blank?

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Well I have used alumilite for years making fishing lures but I guess I have previously gone through it very quickly. I spent a bunch of time taking apart watches and gluing up this blank only to use my alumilte and discover its gone bad. I poured it and it looked fine when I came back not so fine. Oh well these lessons suck but that will not happen again. by the way it looked really cool.
 

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Isn't there some way to dissolve the alumilite off of the tube? I don't know anything about casting, but something has got to dissolve that stuff.
 
I had a similar issue recently and was able to dissolve the alumilite in acetone. Takes between 24-48 hours. May also dissolve some of the CA glue (assuming that is what you used) but, at least in my case, the CA held-up longer than alumilite
 
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Ouch looks like you got some moisture in there from somewhere. Alumilite is not forgiving at all. That is why I stopped using it long ago. I use Silmar 41 with about 3-4 drops of MEKP per once and it's not too brittle. PR is a little more forgiving. But they both have there pros and cons depending what you are doing.

Isn't casting fun
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