Back to work on a lost cast wax

Well, the desire to make a modeling wax for small scale metal casting has bit me again.

Goals:

1) Must be opaque so details are easy to see.

2) Must model well enough to do additive modeling.

3) When cool, it must be hard enough to allow subtractive carving.

4) Must be stiff , but not brittle.

5) Must flow well enough to allow steam dewaxing to remove most of wax before burnout.

6) Must burn out clean enough to allow good surface on metal castings.

and those are just the major traits... As you can see it's not a small challenge.

But to help, I finally found an affordable laboratory nutation mixer to help... yea!!! EBay RULES!

More to come when something worth reporting comes along.
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