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mizgeorge
04-09-2009, 09:17 AM
Or is this called something different here?

Or if anyone has a nice easy recipe for making their own, I'd be delighted if they'd share it :)

ps_bond
04-09-2009, 09:24 AM
Tippex
Yellow ochre (powder or watercolour works)
Graphite
Ball clay
...

There's a few others but those are what spring to mind.

mizgeorge
04-09-2009, 09:27 AM
Thanks Peter - I have most of those knocking around!

ps_bond
04-09-2009, 09:28 AM
Tippex is what I use on mokume plates to stop the plates and the metal fusing. Being mostly titanium dioxide, it's very effective - but can be a pig to clean off.

EmmaRose
04-09-2009, 12:06 PM
You do Mokume (eyes round) oooooo, lovely :dance: post some pics :)
Em

ps_bond
04-09-2009, 12:25 PM
You do Mokume (eyes round) oooooo, lovely :dance: post some pics :)


Shall do. I've got a stack sat waiting to go at the moment - need to clean it properly (again...) and bung it in the kiln.

Ominicci
04-09-2009, 02:37 PM
My silver tutor used rouge and something :confused: mixed to a paste. It looked very messy, but she said not as hard as tippex to clean off.

ps_bond
04-09-2009, 02:48 PM
My silver tutor used rouge and something :confused: mixed to a paste. It looked very messy, but she said not as hard as tippex to clean off.

Possibly meths, easier to get it in suspension than with water from what I've heard. Yes, I'd forgotten that one!

Ominicci
04-09-2009, 02:50 PM
Meths, yes I think so.

ps_bond
04-09-2009, 02:51 PM
http://www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Rouge-Powder---120g4oz-prcode-998-193

In the blurb...

MuranoSilver
04-09-2009, 03:18 PM
Meths, yes I think so.

Nope I daren't have meths in the house...Howard likes his beer to much,
then wine, OMG what if we ran out...he might turn to meths #-o

CyberPaddy66
04-09-2009, 03:34 PM
Don't worry about him drinking Meths, the purple colouring is there to make you vomit, the possibility of him doing it more than once is so slim as to be negligible ;)

Before you ask no I've never drunk the stuff myself but I know a few people who tried [-X

ps_bond
04-09-2009, 03:57 PM
The purple colour is a dye. Bitrex is one of the commonest additives in methylated spirits to prevent it being drunk; there are others.

Industrial meths doesn't have the dye (although you need a licence from HMRC to buy it) but still has all the other additives.

MuranoSilver
04-09-2009, 04:32 PM
lol I don't think he'd really drink meths....not when we have the wine rack
:rofl:

Di Sandland
04-09-2009, 04:46 PM
I adore the smell of meths.

mizgeorge
04-09-2009, 04:53 PM
Park bench Di?
Plain brown paper bag?
teehee

Di Sandland
04-09-2009, 10:00 PM
oh was that you George - didn't see you. That bag was a good disguise.

Bigwol
04-09-2009, 10:16 PM
The Pentel micro correct has a ballpoint pen type tip which allows you to place the fluid where it is needed, it is solvent based so it flames off or evaporates before soldering takes place.

Finally it has a weight in the pen (like the ball bearing in spray paint cans) so it can be resuscitated after a long period of sitting in the drawer, when needed.

When applied to a solder joint which you want to protect, the rest of the piece can be heated to red heat without the protected joing coming unsoldered.

When you've finished soldering - chuck the piece straight in the pickle while it is still hot - the correction fluid marked areas will flake off straight away, needing next to no cleaning up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/DaveWallisPics/Bench/PentelMicroCorrect.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v470/DaveWallisPics/Bench/CloseUpCorrect.jpg

Emerald
04-09-2009, 10:19 PM
lol I don't think he'd really drink meths....not when we have the wine rack
:rofl:

We have a wine rack to but theres never anything in it, now where did i put that meths do you think after 10 years it will have aged well :)

Emerald
04-09-2009, 10:21 PM
Cor blimey Dave could you have got your photos any bigger lol

Bigwol
05-09-2009, 06:08 PM
Cor blimey Dave could you have got your photos any bigger lol
Sorry about that - I've Shrunk them down for you - I've only got a small one (Laptop that is !) so they don't look huge to me. - must be your super duper widescreen monitor making them look huge - but I'll keep them smaller in future!!

Cheers

Dave

Emerald
05-09-2009, 10:29 PM
Funny, i think i was typing a reply as the same as you where posting your picture so when it went back to main screen they just jumped out at me lol

caroleallen
06-09-2009, 11:53 AM
Good idea though. I'll get the Tipp-ex out and give it a try.