Ceilidh ... Grand Opening

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Grand Opening

of the big leaf mold. The Future Wax seal coats and Extreme Tire Shine parting agent did their jobs admirably, preventing the cast aluminum leaf form (patched up with plastic steel)from adhering to the p.steel mold pour. A little prying was all it took for the whole 80 sq. in.
surface to come loose. No damage to the aluminum form, which is critical (not that I couldn't repair it).

What a relief!!! .Now all I gots ta do is screw the form onto the cutting die and set up the alignment pins to locate the die on the mold and I'll be able to test it and start makin' giant leaves. WHAT FUN !!!... for about 30 minutes, then it's like, work, and time to let my press person crank them out . Can y'all tell I'm just a little excited???.Keeping y'all ... ahem... posted every day??.

Also grateful for the opportunity to create such an extraordinary die. Not something I'd try out of curiosity, like le balloon !!!. Nope, necessity was the mother of this invention. A year ago I told this customer I couldn't make things like this... and I couldn't !!. That was then, this is ... just picture the balloon die, but with a devcon mold base to sit on, and 24 times bigger. Wow.
I mean , it's BIG!!! It barely fit between the uprights of my (now little)press, which has 8" by 12" platens, and the end stuck out a foot!!!. The design area did NOT fit onto the platen size. What an odd sight. Of course , it'll look normal in the 50 tonner , with it's 14 by 14 platens... but my hands will appear miniaturized. What an odd sight (^:#.
That's all, folks...

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Tue Feb 19