Going to a wedding this weekend Dean - a beach wedding - as long as it isn't a wash out. Guzzling your home brew is always appealing though. You back on it? lost that spare tyre already?
Yep, made eight last night, 4 OK, 4 not as good. Poured them fairly flat and the lead didn't make it to the last 15-20mm, tried up to a 30° incline and it was no better. Put a couple of breather cuts in one half to see if that helped. The finish was OK. I'll give it a nudge vertically next time or modify this mold. I don't get much Internet access during the week Treedoc- useful access anyway, none of this sort of inappropriate material.
I used fibre bog for the first half, had a night mare using that to mold with that so I used normal bog for the top half. Using fibre bog for detailed stuff is like trying to heard cats into a corner. Going to persevere with the fibre stuff though, cracks in the non fibre bog half already. I used the normal bog as a fairing coat on the fibre bog imperfections - sweat as. Fibre bog feels so much stronger. Wire showed through on a couple – can fix that with a better wire jig. Forgot to counter sink keys so I put a couple of bolts through for alignment. Pretty stoked but, for a first effort anyway. Too easy – sort of. The mold could be better, the next one will be. Smoked the mold with a big old candle, worked a treat with no hang ups.
Prepared the tyre weights by making ingots -
cleaning the crap and slag off. Made ingots out of stick-on tyre weights and compared
them with the clip on ones. The clip on ones were harder than the stick on. The
lead had a sharper tone when you tap it – indicating it was harder. Looked different too - crystallised appearance . Haven't given battery lead a go yet - sorted for that next week though.
Heard a good report about the Stainless thing there SD, heard they kick ass.
This is the 400gr Mk 1
Jolly those look primo mate, gotta be happy with them for a first effort.
treedoc wrote: pour 10 jigs, melt mold, clean up the driveway, pants, shoes, buy primer, paint, clearkote, holo foils, eyes, then spray the jigs, ruin all the holo foil, realise the eyes wont stick, sand em all off again, spray the jigs again, give em some clearkote, end up with some pretty **** homemade jigs, |
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