Another self created fire drill....

[TomW]

I don't know what happens to me, but it seems every time I get ready to make a casting, I get all anxious, multi-thumbed and generally a dumb-xxx.

Last night, I decided to make a small (2.5 oz) Alumilite Crystal Clear casting. Easy enough...

It seems I had "almost empty" alumilite squirt bottles, and brand new gallon jugs...great, I think I'll pump some from the gallon jugs into the easier to handle squirt bottles.....

You guessed it... 5 pumps of A into the B bottle, and 5 pumps of B into the A bottle....

No empty molds (except for the 2.5 oz one), and I cant be sure the mixture is good enough to harden (both squeeze bottles had different starting amounts). No big jug to mix it all up in.... So now I have 2 plastic cup sized Alumilite crystal clear castings....(thed did harden ok...)

Kinda funny in retrospect...

Tom

 

[babyblues]

I don't know what happens to me, but it seems every time I get ready to make a casting, I get all anxious, multi-thumbed and generally a dumb-xxx.

Last night, I decided to make a small (2.5 oz) Alumilite Crystal Clear casting. Easy enough...

It seems I had "almost empty" alumilite squirt bottles, and brand new gallon jugs...great, I think I'll pump some from the gallon jugs into the easier to handle squirt bottles.....

You guessed it... 5 pumps of A into the B bottle, and 5 pumps of B into the A bottle....

No empty molds (except for the 2.5 oz one), and I cant be sure the mixture is good enough to harden (both squeeze bottles had different starting amounts). No big jug to mix it all up in.... So now I have 2 plastic cup sized Alumilite crystal clear castings....(thed did harden ok...)

Kinda funny in retrospect...

Tom

AHAHAHAHA!!! That struck my funny bone! You could keep the cups as a gag kind of thing. Would be kind of amusing to pretend to spill a cup of water on someone at a party or pretend to knock it off the counter. Is that too immature? Probably. With me you never know. :biggrin:

 

[NewLondon88]

So now I have 2 plastic cup sized Alumilite crystal clear castings....(thed did harden ok...)
Tom

You just need to find a way to market this. If they hardened OK, they should
be turnable, right?

Stranger things have been seen on store shelves.. :biggrin:

 

[B727phixer]

That is hilarious! Its always good to be able to laugh at yourself!:biggrin:
I'm glad I've never done anything like that....today!:tongue:

 

[Stick Rounder]

I am still laughing....

 

[Ligget]

I am not laughing (honest) as I am waiting on my mold from Charlie, boy do I hate starting at the bottom of a massive learning curve!

 

[NewLondon88]

I am not laughing (honest) as I am waiting on my mold from Charlie, boy do I hate starting at the bottom of a massive learning curve!

Mark, I'm TRYING! It's in the box, I'm banging on the door of the Post Office,
but they won't let me in. I TOLD them the package was for you, but I
guess some of them don't read the IAP, as it didn't faze them.

They said to wait until they open at 9AM ..