Hints and Material Sources for Sculpture.
| Product | Store or Service | Use | Ingredients | Comments |
| Kneedit | Mitre 10 or hardware shop | making objects, fixing objects. | epoxy putty | You must have this on hand. Can be filed, sawn, sanded, rasped, drilled etc. |
| Selley's Window & Glass Silicone | Mitre 10 or hardware shop. Sometimes they special the product. Note: unless this product is on special, it is much the same price as the superior moulding silicone products. | Moulds | liquid non runny silicone rubber | Good for making moulds or building up expensive moulding rubbers. After you have applied the rubber without air pockets, smooth the rubber by dipping your hand in a container of water with a little detergent added. |
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The range of products available to our customers continually grows - in fact we are only limited by what our customers ask of us. | ||
| Polyester Resin, Glass Cloth, Talcum Powder, release agents, silicone rubber etc | Composite Supplies.
George Thornley P.O.Box 142 Tai Tapu, Christchurch, New Zealand. Mobile 021 329 661 Phone 03 329 6611 Fax: 03 329 6911 |
Making Composite Objects. | Resin, Glass Cloth | This is my supplier and I recommend George. |
| release wax |
Release Wax available from TR Industries, P.O.Box 1533,California 90262, USA. |
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This is the best release wax I have used to date. | |
| Modeling Clay | Lindsay's Leichhardt Pty Ltd, 19 Beeson Street, P.O.Box 90 Leeichhardt 2040, Leichhardt, NSW, Australia. Phone: Aust 02 560 2044 Fax :Aust 02 569 4585 |
Making original sculptures | Clay + oil | A plastercine like clay that does not dry out. |
| Bronze Casting in New Zealand | Clark Wickham Foundary Ltd 11 Wickham street Christchurch Phone: 03 384 2584 |
Pouring bronze into your investment casting. | Bronze | If you want a bronze sculpture original cast, contact John Clark.
This firm cast the bronze Sika you see on my Gallery pages |
| Investment Casting of your Wax Model | Mark Le Bherz Stainless Incast NZ Ltd 16 Waller Tce P.O.Box 2612 Christchurch. Phone 03 3792714 Fax 03 3795889 E-Mail: stainlessincast@xtra.co.nz Website: www.stainlessincast.com |
Putting a ceramic shell over your wax modell so that it can be cast in metal. | Ceramic | This firm invested (high temp ceramic layer) the bronze Sika you see on my Gallery pages. |
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How to make a simple vacuum pump
The name is Arthur Buckland, arfabuck@hyper.net.nz and if anyone wants drawings or pics, drop me a line.
I use it a lot (RTV) in my hobby of making scratch-built scale model warships. The point of this email is that you mention in your tips and hints page that vacuun pumps are expensive. NOT SO!! (with a little Kiwi ingenuity). If you have any mechanical ability (and even if you do not), it is relatively easy (and FREE) to make a vacuum pump to suck out air from any receptacle up to about a cubic metre.
Obtain an old compressor from a dumped fridge or freezer ( any F & P model will do). The tip is a handy source of old fridges, or even easier, if you have an inorganic rubbish collection on the side of the road in your vicinity. Clip off the copper tubes running out/into it ( keep the length as long as possible). Seal off one of the two inlet pipes by bending and crimping, or better still silver solder it shut.
Obtain an old pressure cylinder the same way as the compressor unit. ( an old LPG bottle will do, but a better- more volume available type would be an old oxy bottle.) Make sure the cylinder has a shut off valve. Open the valve and suck all the air out of the cylinder with the said fridge compressor - 2 to 3 mins max in time. Shut the cylinder off. Attach the piping from the cylinder to your vacuum bag or whatever you are using, and open the valve. Hey Presto! In less than a second you have removed all the air from whatever your mould is encased in and have a perfect vacuum around your workpiece. It will remove even the air that was trapped in your silicon or whatever you used to make the mould. Better still of course would be to remove the air bubbles from the mix immediately after you have made it. That way when you paint it on your plug you get complete coverage. Subsequent vacuum bagging will ensure that you get a nice crisply detailed mould. You probably know all this already! but in case you didn't - a brief description of a relatively cheap, if not free, vacuum machine.
Happy moulding, Art
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