JR8675309
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Post by JR8675309 on Jan 18, 2020 9:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by Pat on Jan 18, 2020 14:14:16 GMT -5
I rarely use dop sticks, but the features look better than the regular top pot. I'd get it! You could do melt wax for three different projects. Nice!
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JR8675309
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Post by JR8675309 on Jan 18, 2020 15:14:45 GMT -5
I rarely use dop sticks, but the features look better than the regular top pot. I'd get it! You could do melt wax for three different projects. Nice! Please excuse my ignorance on this, how would having three sections allow three projects? I’m new to all of this and have decided to try my hand at cabs but I usually polish thundereggs on my small cabbing machine. Thanks! |
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Post by Pat on Jan 18, 2020 15:49:45 GMT -5
It is my understanding that the different colored waxes are for different uses. You could also use the same wax in all three troughs, to dop multiple preforms at the same time. I hope cabbers who dop chime in soon! I don’t use dop wax. I hold the preforms in my fingers for much better control unless the preform is very small. rockjunquiebobby1 |
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Post by rockjunquie on Jan 18, 2020 16:05:14 GMT -5
Each wax that is used in lapidary melts at a different temp. If you are dopping cabs, you want green wax. Make sure your dop pot will reach the right temp. You really can't get much hotter than what they call for before the wax is ruined. A dop pot for lapidary, only reaches one temp for green wax.
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JR8675309
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Post by JR8675309 on Jan 18, 2020 16:33:46 GMT -5
It is my understanding that the different colored waxes are for different uses. You could also use the same wax in all three troughs, to dop multiple preforms at the same time. I hope cabbers who dop chime in soon! I don’t use dop wax. I hold the preforms in my fingers for much better control unless the preform is very small. rockjunquiebobby1How do you hang on to your nails? |
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Post by Pat on Jan 18, 2020 16:37:52 GMT -5
Nails have to watch out for themselves! I keep them and fingers about 1mm or 2mm away from the wheels. I gotta pay attention!
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Post by Pat on Jan 18, 2020 16:39:18 GMT -5
Each wax that is used in lapidary melts at a different temp. If you are dopping cabs, you want green wax. Make sure your dop pot will reach the right temp. You really can't get much hotter than what they call for before the wax is ruined. A dop pot for lapidary, only reaches one temp for green wax. Well, that's a vote from me for the lapidary dop melter. |
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Post by rockpickerforever on Jan 18, 2020 17:36:55 GMT -5
It is my understanding that the different colored waxes are for different uses. You could also use the same wax in all three troughs, to dop multiple preforms at the same time. I hope cabbers who dop chime in soon! I don’t use dop wax. I hold the preforms in my fingers for much better control unless the preform is very small. rockjunquie bobby1 How do you hang on to your nails? One way not to destroy your nails is to only make larger cabs, à la bobby1 |
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Post by JR8675309 on Jan 18, 2020 20:35:33 GMT -5
Right! If I had any idea what I was doing I’d probably have bigger pieces.
Not until now have I been able to cut to size.
I appreciate all of your input folks. If you have some fave videos sent them my way! I read up on the boards but visualization is key.
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Post by Pat on Jan 18, 2020 21:14:10 GMT -5
There is at least one cabbing video on our website.
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Post by mohs on Jan 18, 2020 21:34:48 GMT -5
that dental dop pot seem like a bomb ! and as a lighted switch that important ! and not on any other dooper pots i've seen and bought I had to make a sign to remember  easy to forget to unplug wax ruins quick when it over heats plus its dangerous to leave on all of the day & all of the night ha lighted switch may give an ol'mohs rocker a clue  and variable temperature control that rocks price is right I say it go to happy doping edmohstly |
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Post by JR8675309 on Jan 18, 2020 21:55:58 GMT -5
There is at least one cabbing video on our website. I may have watched a while back... I will go seek it out. Thanks for the reminder. |
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Post by melhill1659 on Jan 22, 2020 21:16:32 GMT -5
Each wax that is used in lapidary melts at a different temp. If you are dopping cabs, you want green wax. Make sure your dop pot will reach the right temp. You really can't get much hotter than what they call for before the wax is ruined. A dop pot for lapidary, only reaches one temp for green wax. That should be the case but the one I bought from Rio-the little blue one doesn’t get hot enough to melt mine 😡 |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jan 22, 2020 21:56:31 GMT -5
This dop pot has variable temperature from 60 degrees to 270F. Green dop wax melts at 160 degrees, so this should work fine. I actually like the idea of the different size compartments because if you aren't dopping a lot of stones at once you can use a smaller amount of wax in one of the smaller compartments. The shellac that's in the dop wax is what makes it sticky. Prolonged heating and reheating will cause the shellac to burn off and the wax will not stick anymore. Less waste of good dop wax.
I think it would work just fine for you.
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Post by knave on Jan 23, 2020 5:26:59 GMT -5
Can you add shellac to melted beeswax to make dop wax?
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Jan 23, 2020 8:41:48 GMT -5
knave, I'm not sure. Dop wax is really hard when it's at room temperature. If you whack it on a table or drop it on a hard floor, it will break. I have a feeling that bees wax may be too soft, but you can always perform an experiment and see.
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Post by knave on May 8, 2020 18:35:37 GMT -5
Has anyone tried the dental dop pot?
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Post by taylor on May 9, 2020 0:46:52 GMT -5
Have not tried the dental pot. I did not see any size specs on the listing. Is the ledge wide enough to properly heat say 30 x 40 preforms?
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Post by rmf on May 9, 2020 4:48:57 GMT -5
I purchased a collection once that had a dop pot with a small deep well and a large area to heat the cabs. It worked great. Right up until I left it on and it burned out. It was old probably from the 1950's, so no mfg label. The only other commercial dop pot I have used is a Rock Rascal dop pot and I have had so many stones come off the dop sticks from it that I have gone to using cyanoacrylic glue on aluminum dop sticks made by minerken. The rock rascal only holds the wax at the correct temp for a short while. I was getting so many stones falling off the dop stick it was wasting hours. I was spending 2hrs dopping stones and then have half come off the sticks. I would be most interested to know if the dop pot listed above works well. The reservoir looks shallow and as mentioned above there may not be room to heat stones, though that could be remedied by other means cheaply enough. |
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