do you let doming dry naturally or apply some heat?

[David_Evans]

Ive just done my first ever 200 tonight! Wasn’t perfect but i now know for next time.

Basically apply around 2 thirds of fluid to the sticker and DO NOT move them for at least 30 mins to an hour. I used the supplied heat gun to remove any bubbles (only on about 10 though) If you keep the cartridges upright for 30 mins before use and when putting in the gun this helps the nitrogen to rise to the top.
I used 3m spray mount on the back of the stickers so they laid perfectly flat. I made some stackable shelves out of foamex and some raw plugs.
Now they are all stacked away with a plastic box over them and eagerly waiting for them to cure.

I think moisture is your worst enemy but that’s not a problem at 2100m where i live.

Hope That helps

Dave

[Lynn Normington]

tried it a long time ago, but as Dave say’s, and it really is fascinating how it works

Lynn

[Neil Herbert]

We bought a propagator from our local garden center for around £25.00. We lay our sheet of labels on some board with feet inside the propagator and stack as high as we need. We then leave them a day and they are fine.

[David_Evans]

Neil,

I have been trying to find a propagator for the last week or so but they dont seem to sell them local.

Do you have one which is an electric heater aswell and if so do you use the heat or not?

Dave

[Neil Herbert]

David

Yes it does have a heater built in and we leave it on to help the curing.
We made our stackable plates from off cuts of diabond trimed to size and double sided taped the plug side of some plastic locaters to the underside as feet.

Neil

[David_Evans]

Do you use quite a low heat and how does it affect the humidity

Dave

[Neil Herbert]

It is a low heat with no adjustment just plug and play.
It doesn’t seam to affect the humidity.

Neil

[David_Evans]

Thanks Neil,
I’m back in the UK in May for a while so will pick one up

Dave

[John Singh]

Ere’ What’s been propagated here?

Terrific idea using the plastic locators as legs

[David_Evans]

Me too. I thought i was being clever drilling the 4 corners of foamex and putting in raw plugs so that the upper level sat in the top of the underneath plug. Could of saved me self some time with the locator idea

[Andy Gorman]

I tried various sheets for laying domed badges onto but found dibond to be the most stable. You can get self adhesive rubber feet from RS Components (and probably Maplins) for the legs. Moisture can be a real problem. A dome that looks perfect one day can cure with thousands of bubbles in it the next day. The propogator sounds like a good idea.

[David_Evans]

Reckon your right Andy but had no dibond in stock but loads of foamex off cuts from interior pos. They were only a4 so will do til i get my propagator

[Jason Davies]

Bought my propogator today, none left in B&Q, they must have all read this forum, couldn’t wait until the morning, I have domed, can’t believe how many ‘capsules’ I used (2) to dome probably about 80ish stickers @ 50mmx30mm.
I’ll probably find that they are just one big blob in the morning.

[Chris Wool]

i use glass trays with a strip of 10mm foamex double sided taped each side for a separator.

spray the glass with 3m tac spray not the backing paper.

chris

[Jason Davies]

Yep, I was right a plastic mess this morning, I used far too much, will try again this morning.

Jason

[Chris Wool]

its a sod when that happens but it is normally only one or two that has spilled over, they just want to be one big one after that. 🙁

40 per cart around that size should be about right i think, to hot don’t help, that would make the resin thinner ?. comfortable room temp is correct.

chris

[Andy Gorman]

You don’t need to put on as much resin as you think.
Also, make sure the bench is level or gravity will take over!

[Chris Wool]

quote Andy Gorman:

You don’t need to put on as much resin as you think.
Also, make sure the bench is level or gravity will take over!

forgot the level bit good point