Just ordered some silicone rubber and was pleasantly suprised that the price is the same as the last time I purchased it many years ago. I paid £19.99/litre off ebay which also includes the postage. What are you all paying in other parts of the world?
Last time I bought some it was a little higher than that price.....though that was in the early 90's.
I pretty much by silicone rubbers from only one seller. Mold Making & Casting Supplies from Reynolds Advanced Materials (reynoldsam.com)
Don't how these prices compare to others, but the selection and sizes are impressive.. Diversified Silicone Heat Resistant Silicone Red Rubber Sheet 1/4 Inch Thick X 48 Inches Wide X 10 Ft Long (gasketsupply.com)
I use DWR plastics in the UK, costs are in flux at the min thanks to the trainwrexit, but usually a good bit cheaper on volume than anywhere else
Mantrid! Where have you been? I looked for you for several years after your great mold-making posts on Alloy Avenue. Especially the horse. I was the administrator of AA after Anon until it died, an administrator with insufficient permissions to fix it, and no communications from the forum owner for five years. I have to assume he is dead. Richard
Not to rub salt in wound or detract from Mantrid's return, but his personal site is still alive and was updated in 2018. Still strikes me a s very strange..... http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/ Best, Kelly
It is, as you said, very strange. He has stopped selling books and no longer sells the furnace kits. Nothing new has been added to the site for years. Why is the site kept alive and paid for? Last I checked Alloy Avenue is still there; it is just broken, and i don't have the necessary permissions to fix it. Always before, when the site broke, I would send an e-mail to Lionel and he would fix it, but he would never reply to my e-mail. Very strange. And who is still paying for that broken site? R
Probably correct but it also means Lionel has probably not died because, unless he'd put a specific directive in his will to keep the websites up, one of the first things any estate trustee would do is put a freeze on all bank accounts and credit cards and that would have effectively killed all his websites.
hello Richard I took a break from sculpting and casting. Other things got in the way. but now im back and eager to get melting. Already have a piece nearly ready for the moulding stage. http://forums.thehomefoundry.org/index.php?threads/coral-pinnicle-with-shark-and-conger-eel.2035/ What have you been making in the last few years? got any links to your work? I went to AA before coming here but is is coming up with a message "It appears you don't have permission to access this page. 403 Error. Forbidden."
