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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shadowlight" data-source="post: 2073393" data-attributes="member: 7084">My First CAST!!!To prepare my supa-swank table for casting, I cut a garbage bag in half, opened it up and taped it to the table.  Like so:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/garbage_bag_table.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Don't you wish you had a table this... octagonal?!The mixing instruction on the Permastone says to use 3 parts Permastone to 1 part water.  I poured some water and Permastone in 9oz plastic cups to get ready:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/First_Cast_1.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Permastone + Water = ???As a total guess, I used 1/2 cup water.  I ended up putting in only 1.25 cups of permastone (rather than the recommended 1.5 cups) because the water seemed to stop absorbing the powder (this is Bruce's method for mixing).  I mixed it up and it looked something like this:<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/First_Cast_2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> YUHM!!!I put the first mold on the my gnarly pound board and slowly poured the mix in while pounding the crud out of the pound board.  Tons of bubbles came up so I hope it helped!<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/First_Cast_3.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> There's Bubbles in Them Thar Molds!I was supposed to wait about 5 minutes before scraping the excess off the top of the molds.  I didn't get my timer until a little too late, and ended up scraping after about 8 minutes.  To scrape I used my MASSIVE 12" putty knife (you're supposed to use a 4" knife for better control) and ran it along the top of the mold at a 45° angle.  The bottoms of the bricks had set up a bit and the scrape kind of hosed the bottoms.  I went back over the bottoms again, but next time I'll definitely wait less time before scraping.After scraping I set my timer for 30 minutes and started typing up my first post as I waited!<img src="http://www.geocities.com/tgomm/First_Cast_4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /> Patience...That's all for tonight, I'll post my first cast results tomorrow!</blockquote>

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