sactorick
having dreams about rocks
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Post by sactorick on Jun 28, 2019 8:25:55 GMT -5
Okay, I've only used super glue once. It was for very small cabs to place on a bracelet. I used a wood screw. The head of the screw was too wide so I ground it down a little on the Genie. Then I Super Glued the cab to the wood screw, drilled a hole into the end of a wooden dop stick (dowel) and screwed the screw and cab into the dop stick. It was easy to handle that way. When I was done, to release it I used a candle. Held the screw with needle nose pliers over the flame with the stone away from the flame.The heat traveled down the screw and the cab just fell right off in seconds.
I'm not sure if it's always so easy or if it might damaged a particular stone but that's my one experience and worked like a charm.
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Post by Rockoonz on Jun 28, 2019 10:12:12 GMT -5
What Rick said^^^^
I use cheap HF 2p epoxy on aluminum dops and heating the dop with a torch and popping the stone off has been the drill for me for a long time.
More recently, with tee shaped dops I make that are quite similar to Kens, I've tried double stick mounting tape mostly successfully. Another thing I intend to try is putting painters blue tape on both surfaces and super glue between them for easy clean up, not sure how the tape will hold up with wet work, but since cyanoacrylate is activated by humidity I should have a fighting chance.
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Post by pauls on Jun 28, 2019 17:02:42 GMT -5
Facetors use a two part epoxy that has a filler in it this makes for a more stable glue, (think aggregate in cement,) and also makes it easier to dissolve the glue with acetone.
I mix my own from equal parts of the A and B epoxy and plaster of paris. So a small amount of mix might be a match head size of each of A and B and a match head worth of plaster of paris.
Plaster of Paris because it's soft and wont scratch anything, I have also heard of people using Talcum powder.
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