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Re: mold release agent for seating hatches
By:John Monfoe
Date: 7/20/2001, 3:57 am
In Response To: mold release agent for seating hatches (mark stevens)

: I am ready to make the lip for the hatches to sit on. Nick recommends
: butchers wax(?), or a mold release wax. Well where I live the smallest
: mold release wax I can get is ! pound for $18.50. Seems a bit much as I
: don't really need a pound. Nobody has heard of butchers wax. Is there
: anything else I can use? parrafin wax,paste wax?

Johnson's Past Wax is good and Tree Wax is a little better. If you are casting off wood you have to seal it, with sheclac or anything to make it shiny first. If you are casting off epoxy or sealed wood, give it three coats of paste wax and shine between each coat. Clean the wax off with something like lacquer thinner after seperation of your cast.

John

Messages In This Thread

mold release agent for seating hatches
mark stevens -- 7/19/2001, 2:28 pm
Re: mold release agent for seating hatches
Tom -- 7/20/2001, 1:12 pm
Re: mold release agent for seating hatches
John Monfoe -- 7/20/2001, 3:57 am
Re: mold release Trix
RL -- 7/20/2001, 3:53 am
Re: mold release Trix
John Monfoe -- 7/20/2001, 4:03 am
Re: mold release Trix
Shawn Baker -- 7/20/2001, 10:32 am
Re: mold release Trix
John Monfoe -- 7/21/2001, 7:09 am
insomnia?
rick M -- 7/20/2001, 4:50 am
Re: insomnia?
John Monfoe -- 7/20/2001, 5:56 am
Re: mold release agent for seating hatches
Doug K. -- 7/19/2001, 9:04 pm
Contac paper
Mitch Isoe -- 7/19/2001, 2:40 pm
Re: Contac paper
Ross Leidy -- 7/19/2001, 2:47 pm
Re: Contac paper
Shawn Baker -- 7/19/2001, 3:31 pm
maybe you were thinking of PAM, oil spray *NM*
Paul G. Jacobson -- 7/19/2001, 11:34 pm
Re: Contac paper
Ross Leidy -- 7/19/2001, 4:17 pm
Re: Contac paper
mark stevens -- 7/19/2001, 5:37 pm
hairspray as a release
mike allen -- 7/19/2001, 5:31 pm
Re: hairspray as a release (expensive?)
Shawn Baker -- 7/19/2001, 6:50 pm
Re: hairspray as a release (expensive?)
mike allen -- 7/19/2001, 6:53 pm
Re: it definitely counts
Shawn Baker -- 7/20/2001, 10:19 am
oh no, i thought i was unique
mike allen -- 7/20/2001, 11:08 am
Just be glad you don't look like that *OT* *Pic*
Chip Sandresky -- 7/20/2001, 3:39 pm
i wish i did look like that
mike allen -- 7/20/2001, 4:29 pm
Re: so did I
Shawn Baker -- 7/20/2001, 11:37 am