Post by fedara on May 8, 2015 22:11:14 GMT -5
I was asked to make a 3x3 glowing cube for a costume accessory, which is not terribly hard but uses a lot of mold for something I'll never use again. I them found your new red re-useable mold gel and I was super excited. Sure it was 35 dollars per container, and I needed 2 in order to make the mold I wanted, but if I could re-use it then it was not going to go to waste. I also picked up the Amazing brand resin, because I figured it would be a good idea to use products I assumed would compliment each other since they were made by the same company. I usually use East Cast resin because it took longer to set, and I like having time to arrange items in my resin, exactly how I want them. But since I'm just making a cube, with some glow pigment, what problem could I have?
The mold came out great. A few bubbles, but I can buff that out of the resin later. A full box of resin, which I expected.b So far this project cost me just under $100. But no big deal, I can re-use the mold gel, and I'll have a happy customer. I poured the resin, and set it on my desk, while I went to watch TV with my husband. I came back to check on it and...
I don't even have the words to express how upset I am. If your resin gets HOT when mixed together, why have a mold product that becomes liquid when hot? Or, at least a warning? I can't even melt this stuff to try again, because the resin that mixed in with it, turned it into this shoelace material when I heated it up again to try an separate them. I'm not even entirely sure it was safe to put it in the microwave again, but with the cost I was willing to suffer the fumes I might inhale.
When I told Alumilite about the situation, they told me that they were considering putting a warning on the box. I didn't pour melted metal, or hot glue into the mold. I used Alumilite resin.
Their own how to video says it is compatible with all Alumilite brand resins. It would have been nice to have received a response other than to essentially be told to go pound sand.
The mold came out great. A few bubbles, but I can buff that out of the resin later. A full box of resin, which I expected.b So far this project cost me just under $100. But no big deal, I can re-use the mold gel, and I'll have a happy customer. I poured the resin, and set it on my desk, while I went to watch TV with my husband. I came back to check on it and...
I don't even have the words to express how upset I am. If your resin gets HOT when mixed together, why have a mold product that becomes liquid when hot? Or, at least a warning? I can't even melt this stuff to try again, because the resin that mixed in with it, turned it into this shoelace material when I heated it up again to try an separate them. I'm not even entirely sure it was safe to put it in the microwave again, but with the cost I was willing to suffer the fumes I might inhale.
When I told Alumilite about the situation, they told me that they were considering putting a warning on the box. I didn't pour melted metal, or hot glue into the mold. I used Alumilite resin.
Their own how to video says it is compatible with all Alumilite brand resins. It would have been nice to have received a response other than to essentially be told to go pound sand.