How can that much powder mix with that little water to make a casting slip?
Friday 21st November 2014
This is 8.4L of water (in the bottom of that pail) and a 20kg bag of Polar Ice insight-live.com/glossary/71">porcelain casting clay. Amazingly enough, it is possible to get all that powder into that little bit of water and still have a very fluid slurry for casting. The volume will increase to only 2/3 of this 5-gallon pail. How is this possible? That water has 100 grams of Darvan 7 deflocculant in it, it causes the clay particles to repel each other such that you can make a liquid with only little more water than is in a throwing clay! All it takes is 15 minutes under a good power propeller mixer.
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