[OT][DSII] Genre - and details about casting/moulding

1 posts ยท Feb 25 1999

From: Aaron Teske <ateske@H...>

Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:06:26 -0500

Subject: Re: [OT][DSII] Genre - and details about casting/moulding

Aw, heck.  Not 'zactly on-topic, but....

> At 10:19 AM 2/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
[bubbles in resin]
> If you want to do it

Trouble is, there's still this thing called surface tension. Small detail
*still* won't fill... this I know, even if you're pouring metal in a vacuum
(<10 microns) you don't always fill small details.  ('Bout, oh, 1/10"
across.) And you can have regions of porosity on a surface, too, just from...
whatever. <shrug>

Though, of course, vacuum *does* help.  A lot. ^_^