Hi,
i have been using Matts Casting Flux to prepare my crucibles…i am curious to know what you all use? Is there a better alternative for fluxing crucibles?
julie
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I just use borax shaken out of an old restaurant salt shaker…Rob
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Matt’s flux is what I’ve used for quite a while, but I used borax for many years when I first got started.
In between my borax phase and my Matt’s casting flux phase, I used a black casting flux by Swest (they went out of business a while ago).
They all seem to work equally well for casting and preparing crucibles as far as I can see.
This isn’t what you asked, but my big leap forward in preparing new crucibles is to put them in my kiln and preheat them to 1000 F. Then spread the flux around with my torch. That makes the whole process go way easier. It took me many years to figure that one out!
Cheers!!
Jeff
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what kind of borax do you all use?.. cheap 20 mule team laundry borax? or a dehydrated preparation?
laundry borax bubbles up when heated and makes a mess…Also had problems with sticky build up.
Any suggestions?
Borax out of a box that I bought years ago…Rob
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house hold laundry borax like 20 mule team or prepared dehydrated borax?