El Pirata
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Somebitch! Of all the stupid things I could do I make a blundering novice mistake that I knew would happen. Here's how it goes:
The skull grips for my 45 are made from pewter which I found is too soft to stand up to the punishment of real firearms. So I get a brilliant idea to make some molds of the grips and eithe use epoxy or plastidip for the grips.
Not really a bad idea.
So I go to a chick kinda artsy fartsy store and buy some plaster of paris. While there in the same neck of the woods I see they have some expoy based liquid plastic. I figure WTF and buy it. Instead fo stopping by the hardware store on the way home for some plastidip I opt against it because it's spring and jam packed.
I get home and make the molds nearly flawlessly. I let them continue to harden for a few days and today I say f-it and decide to pour the grips. I opt against using my industrial strength tupperware as a mixing bowl because I figure it's going to need to be an expendible item I use for mixing.
In a cabinet I see some plastic cups that most people associate with beer because you see them at parties all around. They are like really cheap and I figure it ought to work perfectly for what I need. So start mixing add some color, I wanted black but they didn't have black so I used a bunch of blue and red am made a deep purple. I add the hardner and pour it into the mold.
I definately used way to much expoy because the cup is still about halfway full from where it was before mixing. Anyway set the cup down and I hit the head the resume surfing the net. I go check on the epoxy about 20 minutes to see if it's starting to set up and see the bottom of the cup has melted out and the resin in the cup has gone from cup to top of my parts box to CARPET. There's a huge puddle on the freaking carpet.
I am able to clean up most of the stuff off the carpet and my parts box but I know that the carpet is a lost cause anyway. Now to make my good day even better, I am thinking I might have been a little too lenient on the hardner and am praying I was not TOO lenient and the stuff will never dry. I'll post pics later.
The skull grips for my 45 are made from pewter which I found is too soft to stand up to the punishment of real firearms. So I get a brilliant idea to make some molds of the grips and eithe use epoxy or plastidip for the grips.
Not really a bad idea.
So I go to a chick kinda artsy fartsy store and buy some plaster of paris. While there in the same neck of the woods I see they have some expoy based liquid plastic. I figure WTF and buy it. Instead fo stopping by the hardware store on the way home for some plastidip I opt against it because it's spring and jam packed.
I get home and make the molds nearly flawlessly. I let them continue to harden for a few days and today I say f-it and decide to pour the grips. I opt against using my industrial strength tupperware as a mixing bowl because I figure it's going to need to be an expendible item I use for mixing.
In a cabinet I see some plastic cups that most people associate with beer because you see them at parties all around. They are like really cheap and I figure it ought to work perfectly for what I need. So start mixing add some color, I wanted black but they didn't have black so I used a bunch of blue and red am made a deep purple. I add the hardner and pour it into the mold.
I definately used way to much expoy because the cup is still about halfway full from where it was before mixing. Anyway set the cup down and I hit the head the resume surfing the net. I go check on the epoxy about 20 minutes to see if it's starting to set up and see the bottom of the cup has melted out and the resin in the cup has gone from cup to top of my parts box to CARPET. There's a huge puddle on the freaking carpet.
I am able to clean up most of the stuff off the carpet and my parts box but I know that the carpet is a lost cause anyway. Now to make my good day even better, I am thinking I might have been a little too lenient on the hardner and am praying I was not TOO lenient and the stuff will never dry. I'll post pics later.
