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What a day. Ive been busy working all weekend, but doing my favorite tasks: e.max. I spent alot of time on an anterior bridge wax-up, invested it in a 200gm ring. i invested it with microstar, bench sat for 18 minutes, removed the ring and let it sweat off some moisture for another minute...not quite long enough.
I placed it in a 845c oven, (theres a reason I dont do 850). Anyway...about 8-10 minutes later I heard that gut-turning muffled pop. Damn. Shut the oven off and removed the ring with about 1/4-1/3 of a side blown off. Looking into the plunger hole it was evident that the pattern was on the other side of the ring.
I let it cool off, carefully excavated some gouges out from the rest of the ring to create more retention, sized up a big bottle of ibuprophen to use as a ring. I stuck my fractured mould onto a piece of baseplate wax and centered and secured my make shift ring. I mixed up some more microstar to the same ratio and while it was mixing I brushed some of the same liqiud/water ratio onto the dry ring so it wouldnt suck the moisture from my new mix.
Ill let it set over night and heat it up sloowww in the morning. Whats your bet...? Will it press nice?
I placed it in a 845c oven, (theres a reason I dont do 850). Anyway...about 8-10 minutes later I heard that gut-turning muffled pop. Damn. Shut the oven off and removed the ring with about 1/4-1/3 of a side blown off. Looking into the plunger hole it was evident that the pattern was on the other side of the ring.
I let it cool off, carefully excavated some gouges out from the rest of the ring to create more retention, sized up a big bottle of ibuprophen to use as a ring. I stuck my fractured mould onto a piece of baseplate wax and centered and secured my make shift ring. I mixed up some more microstar to the same ratio and while it was mixing I brushed some of the same liqiud/water ratio onto the dry ring so it wouldnt suck the moisture from my new mix.
Ill let it set over night and heat it up sloowww in the morning. Whats your bet...? Will it press nice?