What's it called and where can I get it done?

[Sadlonelygit]

I have an idea for her anniversary present this year.
I want to preserve! a plastic clothes peg in resin.
The peg is special ok!
I've seen flower preservation, but pretty sure a peg doesn't need that level of preparation.
Is it something you could do yourself with a suitable mould, or anyone on here do this kind of thing?
Tia

[Mr. Dazzle]

Casting resin you mean?

These guys sell it and all the gubbins you'd need. You can probably also find it cheaper elsewhere, but I can highly recommend Easy Composites as 'legit'. I used their stuff at work, even when I worked for a composites company

I bet there are loads of instructional vids on YouTube. There's also some info on EC's website.

https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/casting-resins

[KungFooBob]

How do you stop the peg from sinking to the bottom before it sets?

[Slenver]

How do you stop the peg from sinking to the bottom before it sets?

Do it in two layers?

Edit: I know fuck all about this btw, but I make a mean trifle.

[gremlin]

I know all about this, as a resin piece featured in the Gremlinette's art GCSE work (A*, thanks for asking ).

Create the form, mix the resin, pour and push the object in. As said, you can it in layers if the object is heavy to stop it sinking to the bottom.

In fact, I have a resin kit sat in a drawer that never got used, just waiting for a project...

[Mr. Dazzle]

How do you stop the peg from sinking to the bottom before it sets?

Do it in two layer?

Or do it in zero g.

I suggest this all the time at work as the solution to all kinds of problems, no matter how effective it would be no-one ever goes for it

[Slenver]

How do you stop the peg from sinking to the bottom before it sets?

Do it in two layer?

Or do it in zero g.

I suggest this all the time at work as the solution to all kinds of problems, no matter how effective it would be no-one ever goes for it

I mean, it's not hard is it? Just find a friend with a pilot's licence and get him to stall it from a goodly height.

How long does it take to set?

[gremlin]

Do it in two layer?

Or do it in zero g.

I suggest this all the time at work as the solution to all kinds of problems, no matter how effective it would be no-one ever goes for it

I mean, it's not hard is it? Just find a friend with a pilot's licence and get him to stall it from a goodly height.

How long does it take to set?

Long enough that it would be a peg, bone fragments and part of your spleen in the resin.

[Slenver]

Or do it in zero g.

I suggest this all the time at work as the solution to all kinds of problems, no matter how effective it would be no-one ever goes for it

I mean, it's not hard is it? Just find a friend with a pilot's licence and get him to stall it from a goodly height.

How long does it take to set?

Long enough that it would be a peg, bone fragments and part of your spleen in the resin.

That sounds sub-optimal

[Sadlonelygit]

Do it in two layer?

Or do it in zero g.

I suggest this all the time at work as the solution to all kinds of problems, no matter how effective it would be no-one ever goes for it

I mean, it's not hard is it? Just find a friend with a pilot's licence and get him to stall it from a goodly height.

How long does it take to set?

Will that work in a R22?

[MrLongbeard]

Expect bubbles, unless you've got a vacuum chamber or pressure pot

[Slenver]

Or do it in zero g.

I suggest this all the time at work as the solution to all kinds of problems, no matter how effective it would be no-one ever goes for it

I mean, it's not hard is it? Just find a friend with a pilot's licence and get him to stall it from a goodly height.

How long does it take to set?

Will that work in a R22?

Don't see why not

[Sadlonelygit]

I mean, it's not hard is it? Just find a friend with a pilot's licence and get him to stall it from a goodly height.

How long does it take to set?

Will that work in a R22?

Don't see why not

Rather than perform a parabolic arc, ime just.............drop

[Mr. Dazzle]

It’s interesting.
In another life I had a job where we’d get to occasionally play about with pressures in a sealed system to control the temperature when stuff turns to a gas and I found it really interesting, e.g. you can hold water in a vessel well over 100c without it boiling using system pressure.

"Well over" is underselling it You can get water way higher than 100°C with the right pressure, and indeed even 'normal' power stations run up well into the hundreds and hundreds of celsius.

Once you get really hot though 'water' and 'steam' start to become the same thing. Power stations run over on the right of this graph where green and yellow overlap, once you're above the critical point water and steam are essentially the same thing - or they're some other thing with a different name, depends what you want to call it.

Whatever you call it, you certainly don't want a leak

[Count Steer]

I've seen IG stuff where they make 'river tables' by pouring stuff into gaps between slices of tree. Single or multiplepour. They don't seem to have bubble problems. 2 part epoxy, low exotherm. This is listed as 'deep pour epoxy river table resin' but the company does lots of stuff, some sorts are on Amazon.


https://www.clearcastresins.co.uk/deep- ... n-29-p.asp

[Mr. Dazzle]

I've seen IG stuff where they make 'river tables' by pouring stuff into gaps between slices of tree. Single or multiplepour. They don't seem to have bubble problems. 2 part epoxy, low exotherm. This is listed as 'deep pour epoxy river table resin' but the company does lots of stuff, some sorts are on Amazon.


https://www.clearcastresins.co.uk/deep- ... n-29-p.asp

Re: bubbles - we always used to Degas resin (when making certain kinds of carbon fibre) in a vacuum chamber. Basically mix it up, stick it in the vacuum chamber, draw a vacuum and watch the resin bubble up like just poured champagne. Wait for the bubbles to disappear and then you're good.

Surface bubbles on wet resin can be dealt with using a blow torch.

[MingtheMerciless]

"Well over" is underselling it You can get water way higher than 100°C with the right pressure, and indeed even 'normal' power stations run up well into the hundreds and hundreds of celsius.

Well yeah, I didn't want to be too boring

I have a few questions that I used to throw out in interviews to immediately see where someone was at, one of them was "How can I make a cup of water boil at 70c?"
It's a very easy question, but if you don't know then you don't know.

Back onto the subject, there are some brilliant videos on Youtube of people making tables and things using resin and bits of all sorts of things, I particularly like the old wood and resin tables, you can use coloured resin and make some really nice stuff. It's on my list of things to do once I've retired and got time to bugger about.

My old physics teacher used to do an experiment where he could get water boiling at about 38C, pointing out that that this was why tea at altitude tastes rubbish.

[Mr. Dazzle]

I once spent about 40 mins cooking rice in Breckenridge CO (altitude 9500ft) and wondering why it was still pretty al dente

[MrLongbeard]

I've seen IG stuff where they make 'river tables' by pouring stuff into gaps between slices of tree. Single or multiplepour. They don't seem to have bubble problems. 2 part epoxy, low exotherm. This is listed as 'deep pour epoxy river table resin' but the company does lots of stuff, some sorts are on Amazon.


https://www.clearcastresins.co.uk/deep- ... n-29-p.asp

Watch some long form youtube videos on it, they can have the devil of a time with bubbles, for a casting of a thing in resin I'm guessing the aim is for crystal clear with polished sides.

For tables https://www.youtube.com/@BlacktailStudio and https://www.youtube.com/@John_Malecki
For resin in moulds https://www.youtube.com/@nickzammeti and https://www.youtube.com/@BensWorx

[gremlin]

And still nobody has asked the relevance of the peg....