Ice Tray Mold

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Just bought an ice tray that make ice for coke bottles at Walmart. Poured PR in 2 of the section and made perfect blanks. The tray has 27 molds and you can get a blank that is 3-3/8" long X 3/4" wide. Gotta figure out how to mix colors next.
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Has anyone else tried this mold?.......






Mark Tupper
 
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Tried this a couple years ago, they don't work bad.
try a wire with a small crook on the end to gently swirl colors,
stick to the bottom, and twist slowly as you retract it.
 
mtup said:
Sounds like a heck of an idea. Should I add the 2 colors at the same time and wait for it to gel?




Mark Tupper
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I always did a mixed pour with 2 or more colors, just pour some of each at same time, or alternate back & forth.
To help keep colors from just muddying together, I timed the catalyst to delay
one color and have another just starting to think about setting.
It varies based on resin, catalyst, colorant, and a lot of other factors.
just time a few small cups and figure your game plan from there!:)
 
Try a couple of tests in little plastic cups. Some colors will stay separate, some will
blend. Some cure faster than others. Some will do a slow rolling 'boil'.
Some will sink or rise to the top. Can't tell you which ones, as it varies with the
dyes, powders, temps .. it can be all over the place.
Once you know which colors will stay separated (try pouring both together, side by side)
then you'll know you can pour those together, gently stir and they will stay pretty
much that way.
The rest .. well, you'll need to experiment. (and let us know)
 
Thanks John and New. I do know that some gel quicker than others. I even wrote times and tempatures down many times and never got much consistancy. Although most of the pours came out fine. Gonna pour 2 tomorrow in ice tray.


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Mark Tupper
 
Mark

Me and the Mrs have used these ever since we had MICK come in from Alabama for the Southeast Chapter and show us how he does his PR pours. These things work great for us, and we have 6 of them, and do full pours in each all at one time. We have been using them now for 3 months and they still work great!

Some of the colors work together and you get some nice swirling and some dont work as well. We usually like to wait until the mix gets a little sticky and thick if we are going for something that we like to keep the swirling in, and if we are experimenting, we just go with our gut. Have fun, and its a learning process, so dont be afraid to go for it!

Robert
 
They're nice but they only last a couple hundred pours, so buy quite a few, cause they go out of season in the Winter (in Wisconsin).

uuuuuuhhh, yes, we use them.
 
looks kinda short? How tall are the finished blanks? Looks like it would be good for the single barrel kits, or with solid colors, but there is nothing to line up from one section to the next.
 
This shows how out of touch I've been. Hell this is the first time I ever saw these things in the store.....never knew they existed. What the heck, atleast we like to think about the different ways to figure out the perfect pour...


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Mark Tupper
 
They are 3-3/8" long....from experience when mixing multi-color blanks and blowing a few, it's not hard to match them up from one area to the other if you pour more than one. One color blanks is a no-brainer. Anyhow, tomorrow will be the test for me.


Mark Tupper
 
Dai Sensei said:
Not sure about mixing resins, but looks like it would be perfect for coffee bean, banksia, pine cone etc etc etc casting. Wish they sold them over here.
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Yes, you're right...!

Maybe someone could offer the get some for us here in Australia, this has been done many times before with many other items, is only a matter to know what they cost and the freight value to have maybe 2 or 3 posted per person!:biggrin:.
I'm sure is no shortage of people in here with good hearts and willing to help their Aussie friends, huh? and will be fair to say that, "what comes around, goes around...!":wink::)

Cheers
George
 
robutacion said:
Yes, you're right...!

Maybe someone could offer the get some for us here in Australia, this has been done many times before with many other items, is only a matter to know what they cost and the freight value to have maybe 2 or 3 posted per person!:biggrin:.
I'm sure is no shortage of people in here with good hearts and willing to help their Aussie friends, huh? and will be fair to say that, "what comes around, goes around...!":wink::)

Cheers
George
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George, Might be something like that could happen, the things are rather bulky in size, they are about 10 inches 250mm by 4 inches 100mm in and 3-1/2 inches and 89 mm in size and weigh right at 260 grams each, I believe they are under 5.00 each. I have a brand new one sitting on a shelf, I bought it about a year ago and just haven't used it, and don't remember exactly what it cost, I know it wasn't much. is it as hard to send things to OZ as it is to Great Britain?
figure out a way to ship them and I'll see what they cost at Wal Mart and how many could be had.
 
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bitshird said:
George, Might be something like that could happen, the things are rather bulky in size, they are about 10 inches 250mm by 4 inches 100mm in and 3-1/2 inches and 89 mm in size and weigh right at 260 grams each, I believe they are under 5.00 each. I have a brand new one sitting on a shelf, I bought it about a year ago and just haven't used it, and don't remember exactly what it cost, I know it wasn't much. is it as hard to send things to OZ as it is to Great Britain?
figure out a way to ship them and I'll see what they cost at Wal Mart and how many could be had.
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Sorry Ken, only now I checked this thread...!:eek:

Would be interesting to know how much they cost in our days, I wouldn't expect much but the freight is the problem. At 260 gr. each, if I was sending them from here, 1 x piece would be rated at 500gr, as the increments are in 250gr up to a certain weight, counting that the packaging does count, lets say that 3 x pieces packed would be inside 1kg, that would cost from this end AU$27.30, 2kg=$51.30, 3kg=$65.80, etc.,

It would be good if other fellows here (Australia) would be interested, as the quantity would make things cheaper, or even and since the subject as been brought-up, is possible that those things are sold here in Australia, particularly in big supermarkets, which I don't have any near, so maybe someone out there that does frequent trips to these big shopping complexes, could have a look for us...!

Your offer is appreciated, lets wait a little longer and see if someone from this country, comes up with a match!:wink:

Cheers
George
 
Dai Sensei said:
Not sure about mixing resins, but looks like it would be perfect for coffee bean, banksia, pine cone etc etc etc casting. Wish they sold them over here.
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There are two problems with using these for casting. First, they are too big to fit in a pressure/vacuum pot. I solved that problem by cutting one down to size. I then tried coffee beans under pressure and ran into the second problem. The pressurized resin didn't shring away from the molds as expected. I ended up having to pound them out of teh molds using a drilling hammer. The blanks didn't survive teh experience. A mold release might resolve this problem, but I haven't rerun the experiment.
 
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