As a tip.....
I've mentioned in the past that, I sometimes put a 'puttied' model in the fridge or chest freezer, when I haven't got the time to finish what I want at the end of the day.....Or if I get a BIG interruption during my normal 'working hours.'
Last Thursday afternoon/early evening, I popped a model in the freezer with the plan of going back to it on Friday morning.
Friday morning, I was panicking about my damn catheter blocking, once again...... and that point, there was no way I could concentrate on pushing putty.
Friday afternoon, it was over to the hospital for a CT scan.
In brief.....I got b*gger all done on Friday.
Saturday & Sunday.....Chores time.....So I completely forgot about said model in the freezer.....Until Monday morning. X_X
Thinking that after 72 plus hours, I was probably going to have to rip off the unfinished work, and start again...I was delighted that the putty STILL hadn't remotely cured, and I could finish off what I'd started Thursday afternoon. (I stopped swearing, as well !) :D
I'm wondering just HOW long mixed putty would 'last' in the freezer......But I don't thing I'll ever push it that far again.
Cheers - Phil
A long time.
I once mixed way too much and put it in, and three weeks later it was still usable.
Thanks, Peter. :)
Useful to know. :-bd
The only thing that concerns me, slightly, is whether the 'integrity' of putty that's finally cured after being frozen for so long, will make it do 'something strange' when it gets put into a mould.
My gut feeling is that it wouldn't do anything nasty.
I might stick a wee bit in the freezer and leave it for a few weeks.....Then....Model/detail a very quick 'flat' and send it up for Leon. Ask him to pop it into a spare bit of a mould, to see whether it works OK.
Cheers - Phil
Might well cause chemical changes. Heat is more likely to but....
Must admit I was pretty stiff to work with in the end though!
Quote from: petercooman on 05 December 2017, 11:43:55 AM
Must admit I was pretty stiff to work with in the end though!
Ummm...is this a topic for this forum? :-$
Are we back to where the catheter goes again?!
Quote from: petercooman on 05 December 2017, 11:43:55 AM
Must admit It was pretty stiff to work with in the end though!
IT, not I
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Quote from: ianrs54 on 05 December 2017, 11:39:29 AM
Might well cause chemical changes. Heat is more likely to but....
I'll have an experiment at some stage, as I say, Ian.
The only real muck up (sic) I've had with heat or cold using green stuff, is when I tried to
really force dry a model by suspending it over a convector heater.
For a start....The sharp detail went soft and blurry, and when I started cutting all the old G/S off the model when it completely dried, it was full of TINY bubbles.....(Like an Aero*.... the bubbles were obviously a lot smaller. ;))
Cheers - Phil (*Aero....A chocolate bar, for those of you that don't live in the UK.)
interesting thread. :-bd
My own green stuff is normally dry and stiff when I pull it out. Sometimes it is wet and slimy, that's why I've a hanky 8-}
Best is when you've been working construction, inhaled a lot of dust, and it comes out black and hard.
We've got lumps of it round the back.
Quote from: RoyWilliamson on 06 December 2017, 10:35:19 AM
interesting thread. :-bd
My own green stuff is normally dry and stiff when I pull it out. Sometimes it is wet and slimy, that's why I've a hanky 8-}
Best is when you've been working construction, inhaled a lot of dust, and it comes out black and hard.
Erm......
Cheers - Phil