| | It's been a while! ^^ Nothing terribly exciting has happened... That's why XD
Anyways, yesterday, I was at work and I was trying to prepare these moulds for one of our procedures. (A procedure I happen to be developing! :p) So after some searching on me and sissy's part, I found this casting material called PermaStone Break-Resistant Casting Material. Sounds awesome doesn't it? It doesn't break! It's like stone!
Well... These are those "if it's good, it'd good; if it's bad, it's horrible" situations...
I prepared my mould and put in my piece that I was trying to replicate the shape of. Turned around to go read something... BAM! Totally forgot about it >_<
Yup... It got stuck...
Darn it all! And like it's name suggests... BREAK-RESISTANT! (I know, cuz I just tried to break it today...)
Sounds like no biggie right? I mean, I bought the entire box for $5... Except, no luck there! I only have ONE of the pieces for the shape that I need... And now it's STUCK in this BREAK-RESISTANT material....
Gah! Turned into a sculting session for like half my work day... Trying to gouge away enough of this stone-like material so I could liberate my poor trapped piece... I did before, but I have a newfound respect for ANYONE who does any type of sculpting, especially for people where this is their profession! Like seriously!! I was just trying to gouge away in any shape or form, as long as it came loose enough that I could get it out. But to have pieces where your livelihood depends on it... And if you do like ONE thing wrong... There goes all your hard work...
Not to mention, it doesn't help that I'm using a resin-based material to pot and what not. (Seriously, me and sissy sound like druggies when we talk about this XD) That stuff is like just as hard and my test runs of how it works... It was in glass jars!! I couldn't even break the mould to free my stuck attempts and I couldn't break the glass jar because of this stuff. What the heck!?!
I have no idea how I'm supposed to dispose of it... Broken glass can go in the broken glass container... CLEAN, broken glass that is. Not so clean if the whole jar has resin in it. The resin is supposed to go in solid waste, but I can't get it free... I couldn't break the mould to liberate the resin and I don't really want to throw the mould into solid waste when it's already full...
haha, back to the "druggie" chat though. I was complaining yesterday to sissy (on Skype) that I had to go to the bathroom, but I was in the middle of preparing another mould. Like UH... DON'T want to go through sculpting class again! So she was like "Go take your pot with you to the bathroom." Lolz~ Like uh... No thanks! XD
*sigh* Dunno WHAT I'm gonna do with this stuff. Can't break it. Can't just throw it in the trash... (Though I did a little bit with the stuff stuck in my moulds... Shhhh~) Definitely not doing that with glass jars though.
Not to mention, this week has been utterly booooring~ Just testing stuff and all that... But it's a whole bunch of doing and not much else. haha, I'm just hard to please. Not in the doing-stuff mood and that's all I get for weekly tasks. Then when I am in the doing-stuff mood, I get stuck with writing reports... Go figure... *glare*
Ah well. That's all the updates from me for now!
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