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Re: Pecan Resin & Vaccume Extraction
Posted by: "oneacmename" daniel@gecko-grotto.com oneacmename
Thu Mar 6, 2008 9:09 am (PST)
I seen this show I'm not sure about the extraction but I think the
pecan in the resin was just for color and was an additive not part of
the resin itself. Pulverized pecan shells I think is all it is to add
color.
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wrote:
>
> I was watching a "How it's Made" segment on TV and they were
casting
> 12" highly detailed figurines in a pecan shell and resin mix and to
> extract the figurine from the RTV mold they placed the mold with
the
> resin set up on top of a tall tube and vaccumed the air to cause
the
> mold to expand and easily extract the figurine from them mold.
> Question 1: We do we get the pecan resin from?
> Question 2: Is the vaccume/expanding mold that easy to do or is
this
> a special case? Have folks on this list done this sort of
extraction?
> Are there Do's & Don'ts?
>
> Many thanks,
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