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Yes,please…if possible,replacement bags.I and a few others are in the muggy,humid south and sometimes have them stored.The bags would be so very helpful for preserving and keeping them as beautiful as the day they were born… 😀
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Male Hearth....one day🤞Dream on.well I got my dragon in front of the blow dryer, which will do as good as heat gun. it heats the thing hot enough that i can not touch the spot that has been heated with out pain. I would say that is definately over 100 degrees of heat right there.
Unfortunately, I am not seeing any change in the clear coat………….. I even pressed it with my finger to see if it was even soft and nope. nice hard clear coat. I am going to leave him to heat up while doing dishes…and if that does not work… he might be a test dragon. I’ll try scrubbing him with a brush and soapy water next.Boo, well that’s not encouraging 🙁 Thanks for the report though Koishii, for a lot of our sakes I hope there’s a fix!
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I wouldn’t honestly give up hope without trying a heat gun. Heat guns can be set a lot higher than your average blow dryer. Hair dryers have safety measures built in to help prevent you getting burnt, otherwise the thing would burn you within a few seconds (and the dryer would melt… toasters have similar mechanisms built in). Heat guns are built to sustain a higher temperature (high enough that you are not recommended to EVER put your hand under in the highest settings, or you will suffer a pretty serious burn.
People should be able to buy the bags online somewhere from a place that sells them (though I’m sure you’d need to buy them in bulk of some quantity), no different than jewelry bags and the like, only bigger.
I might have to wait for the heat gun. I know we had one for stamping, but while we are trying to get rid of stuff right now, I just can’t afford to go out and buy an item i expect to only use once….
Is there some sort of place you could rent one from? I have no idea what a heat gun is, except i assume its like a hair dryer that gets a lot hotter 😀 If it is something that is used by contractors there are certain places that will rent out certain tools. Or if you know of a place that uses one maybe you could ask them if you could borrow theirs or use it under their supervision? I dunno, just throwing out ideas. I agree that I would hate to have to buy something to use once and know it might not work
We use a heatgun at work for re-shrinkwrapping things naughty customers have opened. It only takes a few seconds for the air coming out to get hot enough to burn! Have to watch your fingers on those. The ones we use aren’t even big ones (like for stripping paint…if you’ve ever seen the movie The Knowing, remember when he strips the door to find the ‘secret’ message?). You might be able to borrow one from someone who does house painting?
I’ve used a heat gun before, and they do get dangerously hot! So hot in fact that I worry if it would damage or crack the gypsum?
I suppose you would have to be very very careful not to get it too hot. I thought gypsum loved heat though so I dont know if it would damage the stone, I would worry more about the paint getting to hot and cracking or something like that. But I think if you were careful it would be manageable
In terms of the gypsum cracking, my advice would be to try and heat it up slowly, and then cool it down slowly afterwards. In other words, don’t blast one spot suddenly with the heat gun, but warm up the piece as a whole before focusing on one spot. Then when you’re done, don’t put it in front of a cold drafty window. It’s the sudden changes in temperature that cause cracking, otherwise gypsum stone should tolerate any temperature range pretty well. I remember a while back there was a post about some Windstones that had even survived a house fire!
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What are the general heat output ranges on the heat guns you are looking to use?
Gypsum does not enjoy extreme heat. Very very high heat causes the breakdown of gypsum and it will turn back into dust/powder (Which is why you cannot fire one in a kiln).
And as Zelda said, large temperature changes happening quickly can cause not only the gypsum to crack, but the paint to craze.
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