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I don't understand what you mean by: "question is on the mold ring/can: for a 12"x1" how much does the "lip" on the lid of the can go into the cavity? It looks like about 1/4" to"

I want to cut a piece 2x2ft and bend a 12" radius. will that stuff bend that much without breaking?

II would bake them at a higher temp, maybe 395. I bake everything at 395 for 25 minuets. baking at a higher temp runs the risk of running or drips on the end of the jigs if you have too much paint on. usually when i have chipping is a result of too low or not long enough baking, or both.

It takes hard lead, to work best. I use lead with 6% antimony. when i try to use lead with less antimony I get more rejects. the fill gates in spin casting molds are thinner and hard lead allows the jig to break off of the spru instead of bending back and to break off. this leaves a cleaner breakoff point. I have used wheel weights but they on have about 1% antimony. learning curve is not bad but that depends on the complexity of the part you are casting. your slowest part of spin casting will be loading hooks. If you have 8 molds and 3 people loading molds you could pour 15,000 in 1 day. molds don't last forever. heat wears them out, so having 3 or more molds will spread out the heat a little and dumping out of the mold as soon as possible to try to keep the mold from getting too hot. the molds don't get very hot anyway. If you have 3 molds and 1 person loading hooks and pour all day the molds would not get too hot, as long it is not a 2 or 3 oz jig.

Never used fishing shirts dot com I have tried to buy from the "manufacturer" but didn't have any luck. I heard they were made in Vietnam.

never heard of "Teflon flu" and I don't want it. I've had super glue flu and that it bad stuff! ok, so no Teflon. I think I can make one out of vulcanized silicone. Yes, using 32oz ladle, this is a spincast mold. I did heat the parts loaded in the mold with the top off the mold. Heated to 350F for 10 minutes, then put the top on put in the machine and got 75% of the cavities good parts, but the problem is the aluminum piece and 2 other metal parts. so I am going to try the silicone in place of the aluminum this is not a fishing lure. My son says I don't know how to say no. Thanks!

I was wondering if anyone has ever milled some flat bar teflon. I want to mill a cavity in some 1" sq x 1/4" thick. I need to put a pocket in this about .070" deep, so does it mill good? this is for a mold pouring lead. I used aluminum and it sucks the heat out too fast to get a complete pour and I thought maybe Teflon wouldn't suck the heat out so fast. this stuff is $2.35 a sq in.

thanks for trying that! now I know not to buy a sandblaster. I have stripped a lot of jigs and its not worth the time either.

thanks,

as a general rule does anyone have trouble shipping overseas? I have shipped a few things overseas USPS and never had any trouble. I usually ship Priority, but this time I was going to ship First Class. Has anyone had a shipment lost and what was the result, good or bad? Thanks,

thanks that makes sense. I'll keep working on this. right now it makes 1-90, through a filter, then another 90. I checked on the resistance on the filter and it is next to nothing, what the tech said, so if I put 2 filters in line I get double next to nothing. so I need to find out how much SP I get with 2 - 90's. If it is not more than 0.500-in, then this fan should work. I just hate trial and error. you know what they say "at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try...................again"

i am looking for an exhaust fan for my homemade paint boot and this is one of the specs: CFM @ 0.000-In. SP1904 CFM @ 0.125-In. SP1812 CFM @ 0.250-In. SP1719 CFM @ 0.500-In. SP1429 I know what cfm stands for but I don't know what the rest means or how to put this in perspective. I am guessing it has something to do with pressure I want to know if this sucks or not. the fan I use now puts out 1000 cfm but I am sure that is with no resistance and it is not a paint booth fan, it is a ventilation fan. I have a filter in the booth and this fan fills the filter up pretty quick but I need a little extra pull when I am spraying epoxy and the fan I have has a little bit of over spray on it and it is not working as good as it use to. I am going to put a 2nd filter in to try to keep it off of the fan. In reading about the fan in question it is a paint booth 12" tubeaxial fan. It looks like it would be a lot better than what I have now. I am assuming this would pull almost twice as much as what I have now. what do you think?

thanks! Im not going to do the hooks, these would be in some aluminum racks and I would like to take the paint off of the aluminum racks also. I have a lot of painted jigs I would like to sandblast. one other thing is I was wanting to remove the lead casting parting line on jigs also,

anyone try this? I am thinking of one of the sand blasting cabinets to take off baked on powder paint off of lead head jigs.

Yes. I have made a few.

thanks, I use laq thinner, I guess I don't take enough time to scrub it every time. soaking it in laq thinner messes up the plastics parts in it. the main thing is keeping it out of the nozzle, I usually give it a good brushing but once in while it gets a little on it and messes up the pattern. i'm just looking for an better way if there is one.

thanks for the info!

lets say I would buy a plastic injection system like shooting star, do you put the remelt back into this system? does the remelt degrade the quality of the product?

thanks, those look interesting. I have the gun and mixer tubes for the 3M products. this is good to know. Thanks!

thanks for confirming. On to plan b

Is there any kind of glue that works with this? I tried some gel CA to glue 2 pieces together and clamped for 2 hours and it didn't get dry. so I screwed it together. Now I need to attach a thin piece of silicone to the HDPE. I would like to try RTV hi temp silicone but I dont think it will work. has anyone had any luck glueing HDPE?

thanks, they had some on sale at Menards. it was a 1.250" square and I thought.............

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Does this mill easy, smooth finish?

Does this mill easy, smooth finish?