Your selection of a casting material
is dictated by what you want to make. If you are making
jewellery you would be looking at the resins. If you
are making novelty plaques for children to paint you
would need plaster and so on. We will concentrate on
the most popular.
PLASTERS
Our most popular plaster Boral Casting Plaster is used
mainly for childrens plaster painting using our plastic
moulds. We use it in preference to the hardware store
plaster of paris because of its finer nature and the
hardness of its surface which helps prevent chipping
and is a better painting surface.
For those who want a harder plaster or a special purpose
plaster we stock the American USG series of stone plasters,
Hydrostone, Hydrocal and Ultracal.
RESINS
Opaque hard plastic style resins.
The most versatile and easiest to use resin is CraftCast.
It sets up in 3 minutes in a silicone mould and can
be removed in 10 minutes. It is a hard white plastic
product that can be metal filled, coloured or painted
for any number of end products. It is a polyurethane
resin.
We use it for toy train parts, antique car parts, badges
or decorative items of all descriptions. We use CraftSil
silicone moulds and recommend the two as the perfect
combination.
Colourless hard plastic style resins.
Chief amongst these resins is Crystal Cast resin an
epoxy resin. It has little or no odour and is a two
part product that mixes easily one part each of A and
B We use this resin widely for resin jewellery and similar
products. It cannot be cast large embedding moulds and
for this we use a polyester resin.
We would use Clear Cast polyester resin a lot more if
it did not have a highly objectionable odour and a nasty
catalyst MEPK. It is the lowest cost resin and can be
cast into moulds of any size for embedding. It is water
clear in colour.
METAL ALLOYS
We carry a range of low lead and leadless alloy metals
for the white metal casting of toy soldiers and train
parts. We also carry a leadless pewter for the badge
and jewellery makers.
CONCRETE AND CEMENT
We do not supply the concrete but the Latex Hobby moulds
and the PolyU polyurethane moulds for professional users
represent a major part of our business. We are an information
resource for all decorative concrete products.
