BassnG3 Posted February 19, 2013 Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 I have two aluminum hand pour stick molds and I remelted some year old sticks because they were too stiff. I added a little softener and plastic to the cut up sticks, melted the plastic, stirred it up good and poured it into my two molds. I went to pull apart the molds and what I found was a gooey mess in both molds. I assume I added too much softener so I scraped as much of the remelted plastic as I could back into my cup and added a little plastic and reheated. While my plastic was reheating I took salt and a wire brush to clean up the remaining goo from my molds put them back together and poured the plastic in the molds. This time when I took the molds apart the plastic stuck to one mold and not the other. I can't figure out why the plastic would stick to one mold and not the other. Should I add some type of release agent to the sticky mold? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted February 19, 2013 Report Share Posted February 19, 2013 Try spraying your molds with PAM cooking spray. You may have cleaned them too well, and opened up the aluminum faces a little. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ipt Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 clean them in boiling water, should get rid of everything that isnt aluminum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
