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Accidental curing?
Have a question...
During the hurricane my workbench got the heaviest deluge that came through the roof but workbench, tools, pasta machine etc were all salvageable... I am not sure about my blocks of clay though. They were closed up in a large tackle box on a shelf under the workbench and stayed dry but the house was at over 100 degrees for almost a week before I got the tackle box out. It seems I remember reading somewhere that clay can begin to cure at 90 degrees so... I am wondering if the clay will also be salvageable. In all the confusion I left the tackle box at my daughter's house and won't get it back for a few weeks to check it out for myself and its making me nuts not knowing!!! I did think to take my clay canes with me (along with all my beady stuff)! They are ones made by real clay artists (Cheryl, Ilysa and others) and are beautiful work. I am SO glad I did not lose them!!! Any info or suggestions of how to salvage my clay, if it did begin to cure, would be *greatly* appreciated. -- Polly -- don't spook my groove... -- |
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I live in Californias High desert region, temperatures here are often above
90 degrees F. The internal temperature in my house has been as high as 130 degrees when I forgot to crack windows, while I was gone. The clays I use (Sculpey, Sculpey3, Premo, Fimo soft) have all been fine in these conditions. Sometimes my clay is even left in the sun directly (curtain not pulled and box of clay left on couch) and I have noticed no major problems yet. Greg Krynen www.krynen.com - forums for jewlery, lapidary, poly clay, etc www.PurpleDragonGifts.com - Jewelry, Art, Beads "Polly S." wrote in message ... Have a question... During the hurricane my workbench got the heaviest deluge that came through the roof but workbench, tools, pasta machine etc were all salvageable... I am not sure about my blocks of clay though. They were closed up in a large tackle box on a shelf under the workbench and stayed dry but the house was at over 100 degrees for almost a week before I got the tackle box out. It seems I remember reading somewhere that clay can begin to cure at 90 degrees so... I am wondering if the clay will also be salvageable. In all the confusion I left the tackle box at my daughter's house and won't get it back for a few weeks to check it out for myself and its making me nuts not knowing!!! I did think to take my clay canes with me (along with all my beady stuff)! They are ones made by real clay artists (Cheryl, Ilysa and others) and are beautiful work. I am SO glad I did not lose them!!! Any info or suggestions of how to salvage my clay, if it did begin to cure, would be *greatly* appreciated. -- Polly -- don't spook my groove... -- |
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Accidental curing?
Greg Krynen wrote:
I live in Californias High desert region, temperatures here are often above 90 degrees F. The internal temperature in my house has been as high as 130 degrees when I forgot to crack windows, while I was gone. The clays I use (Sculpey, Sculpey3, Premo, Fimo soft) have all been fine in these conditions. Sometimes my clay is even left in the sun directly (curtain not pulled and box of clay left on couch) and I have noticed no major problems yet. Thanks Greg... I've had a couple of emails saying about the same thing!!! Yeah! I may be taking a daytrip to retrieve my clay (and parrot and turtle!) from my daughters house in a day or two. I am just glad to know thats it likely the clay is fine. I don't have near enough time to 'play' as much as I would like these days and have too many unfinished projects but losing it all would have would have been just one more thing. Very minor, I know, in the scope of the disaster locally but it looks like it's one less little thing to worry about. Thanks again!!! -- Polly -- don't spook my groove... -- |
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