Over Heated The Clear-got Slight Yellow

[atijigs]

I was doing some laminates with a new mold. I was using two pyrex cups with equal amounts of plastic in the 25$ microwave. I knew that equal amounts of plastic is a good thing. I did not know that it is bad thing is to have one cup larger than the other. The bigger pyrex cup heated the plastic much faster. To make a long story short I overheated the clear to a slight yellow trying to play catch up. It was a two part laminate 6 inch swimbait. I wanted blue dorsal with clear and silver glitter ventral. I went ahead anyway with the slightly yellowed clear. The baits turned out great but I know the clear was overheated. The overheated clear along with the blue dorsal gave a really nice chartreuse look to the belly. I have no doubt the baits will work. My biggest question is how much does the overheating affect the properties? Should I discard the rest of the mildly overheated plastic or dye it a darker color and use it for a different bait? I am only talking a small amount because I was testing the mold. At what point should it be tossed?

Edited March 31, 2011 by atijigs

[JSC]

Like U said ... "or dye it a darker color and use it for a different bait"

I all most all ways make it Black .. Never noticed much adverse effect.

JSC

[jesse1378]

when i pour my 3 color swimbaits or even inject laminates i use the same size cup. BUT not all cups are created equal. 2 of them are lol. i have one cup that is slightly thinner glass. and if you set up all 3 cups next to each other you can see the marking are slightly different. i have them marked now so i know which one will heat up faster. anyway. even when you get the same size do a test batch to see if one heats up faster and mark it.

As for burnt plastic...black it up and then add glitter of choice. when i burn plastic it just means i got more black with blue flake frogs coming lol.