removing alumilite?

[mywoodshopca]

I had a failed casting that I would like to redo..

What method would everyone suggest to remove the alumilite?

IE: so I can reuse the blank.. boiling, heat, acetone, etc?

 

[1080Wayne]

Failed in what manner ? Pictures ??

 

[mywoodshopca]

Failed in what manner ? Pictures ??

Spongy bubbles (from being still damp I guess) and also a few voids.

 

[DurocShark]

Are you trying to remove it from the mold or the tube?

 

[MesquiteMan]

You might as well toss it. Either that or use a dremmel and clean it out. Alumilite is pretty darn resistant to solvents once it has cured.

 

[mywoodshopca]

You might as well toss it. Either that or use a dremmel and clean it out. Alumilite is pretty darn resistant to solvents once it has cured.

Ah ok thanks



Heres the ones I would like to redo..

http://www.penturners.org/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24343&d=1265768878

 

[JerrySambrook]

I had a similar experience, and even soaked in acetone.
Did not do enough damage to the alumilite to remove from the nice wood I was trying to cast.
So, with my limited experience, I agree with Curtis
Jerry

 

[mywoodshopca]

I had a similar experience, and even soaked in acetone.
Did not do enough damage to the alumilite to remove from the nice wood I was trying to cast.
So, with my limited experience, I agree with Curtis
Jerry

Thanks Jerry

 

[wolftat]

I found the best way to remove alumilite from wood is fire, but make sure you do it outdoors.

 

[mywoodshopca]

So the consensus is not a chance! lol

 

[holmqer]

What I would like to know is a good way to remove sticky uncured Alumilite from whatever I got it on, hands, molds, small birds...

 

[MesquiteMan]

What I would like to know is a good way to remove sticky uncured Alumilite from whatever I got it on, hands, molds, small birds...

Lacquer thinner, acetone, and mineral spirits will do the job.

 

[Dorno]

Yeah it looks pretty well stuffed to me. Start again

Cheers Ian

 

[JerrySambrook]

Curtis,
Eric (holmqer) came into work today, and we all had to laugh at him, and how much he had covered himself with uncured alumilite. Kinda like a dennis the menace skit.
He got it onto places I would not want acetone, or thinner near. (His eyes and ears is where I was talking about you bunch of pe....ts)

Just kidding about that, but you if can picture it happening, it would happen to him.

Jerry

p.s. I hope he isn't readin this or he will send Sandy down to :wink:"talk at":wink: me again