[Jewelry making - Article 00365] - Re: [Orchid] Dop wax alternatives, for facetting

[Thomas Janstrom]

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>     Any epoxy facetor out there experience this vacuum? I had this
>     problem quite a bit until I figured out that I shouldn't have the
>     rim of the dop touch the stone. 

    Yep, I too back off just a tad, but I use an epoxy called
    "Tite-On"... 

>     I thought I followed this post all the way. Has anyone mentioned
>     the use of heat to liberate stones from epoxy dops? 

    Again yep (to the use of heat, I haven't followed the whole thread),
    but only for heat insensitive stones. It doesn't take much either, if
    you can smell that hot epoxy smell it's too hot. 

>     And lastly, I don't use dop wax at all. I became tired of being
>     burned. Also, if my shop freezes I have to re-do all the wax
>     dopping and that isn't fun. 

    I live in sub-tropics so it's not an issue here, but I can see it
    being a problem! When it gets too hot here I have had wax dopped
    stones drift so during summer I use epoxy only, but for the rest of
    the year it's wax to do the pavilion and epoxy for the crown.... BTW
    only been burnt once, when I was standing a tad too close to a fellow
    faceting student (years ago now) who panicked and flicked a hot drop
    of wax onto my arm, still have the scar to this day! 

Cheers, Thomas Janstrom.
Little Gems.
www.tjlittlegems.com
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