[Jewelry making - Article 00762] - Re: [Orchid] Casting reheating investment molds

[Noel Yovovich]

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>      I believe that it was in Tim McCreight's book "Creative Casting"
>     where I read that you can reheat a flask as long as you let it
>     cool to room temperature, soak it in water to rehydrate it and then
>     take it back up to casting temperature. 

    Just my .5-cents' worth-- I don't do a whole lot of casting, but I
    have reheated flasks a number of times, for one reason or another.
    One even got reheated twice. I didn;'t soak them, or do anything. So
    far, they have come out fine...subject to change without notice.    

--Noel 


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