reeniebeany
starting to spend too much on rocks
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Post by reeniebeany on Jan 23, 2021 16:30:57 GMT -5
We are thinking of replacing our tile shower floor with an epoxy resin pebble floor. The black bagged pebbles from the Dollar store are all similarly flat so they might do for the majority of the base.
The hitch is they are wax coated to make them shiny and black. I tried boiling off the coating with a test bag. They come out much more gray when they are dry, but the resin would give them back the wet look.
Boiling works fine, but leaves a waxy mess on the sides of the pot. Would tumbling in a rotary or vibe work to remove the wax? Or would it make some foul tumbler eating mess? Would the slurry morph into some feral species that requires a hazmat team?
I remember the post about tumbling polyurethane off rocks, but poly is hard and wax is soft.
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Post by victor1941 on Jan 23, 2021 16:50:07 GMT -5
Reeniebeany, Silica carbide is hard and should easily remove the coating if cracks don't exist in the stones. I use a vibe and the sludge is not hard to wash out.
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reeniebeany
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Post by reeniebeany on Jan 23, 2021 18:27:30 GMT -5
Thanks! I will try it.
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EricD
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Post by EricD on Jan 23, 2021 20:54:35 GMT -5
That sounds like a horrible idea. The wax will be coating everything then, now including the tumbler barrel.
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Jan 24, 2021 9:44:16 GMT -5
Yeah, boiling is the best way to remove wax. Sounds like a good time to look for a yard sale cooking pot. Then the mess won't matter... .
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reeniebeany
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Post by reeniebeany on Jan 24, 2021 21:47:30 GMT -5
I should probably split the difference. Boil off the majority and finish the residual film off in a tumbler.
Thanks!
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