Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Celtic Illumination, parte quattro, unlike the pizza

Luckily, when you begin to search on-line for information about mould making, ninety per cent of the responses actually deal with mould making.  Some responses deal with the black stains that appear between tiles in the bathroom and some with growths that appear in dark damp places.  Now I was faced with a list of products and procedures that would confuse a man of average intelligence.  As you can guess I was very confused.
I began to experiment.  It’s okay, I wasn’t back injecting cocaine into my eyeballs, not that I ever did do that.  I bought some Vinamold.  Its basic property of being able to be re-used appealed to me.  Vinamold is a re-usable self-releasing rubber supplied in solid blocks although thermostatically controlled melting equipment is needed to use it.
Between beatings at Violent Hell I was learned Latin, so I knew that, roughly translated, Vinamold can be melted by placing it in a decent metal pan and putting it in the oven.  If you don’t have a thermometer to determine when it reaches its melting point of approximately 160C don’t worry.  When your wife runs into the kitchen screaming, “The fecking house is on fire!!” the Vinamold in the oven has reached approximately 160C.
This is the point where you realise that a dish cloth is not thermally resistant enough to withstand 160C and we are metaphorically back at the races, seeing whether or not you can place your pan of 160C bubbling Vinamold on a heat resistant surface before the flames from the dishcloth reach your naked skin.

On your marks, get ready, get set, go!

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