Alumilite Amazing Clear Cast Plus [8 oz A + 8 oz B (16 ounces) 2 Part Kit] UV Resistant Plastic Coating & Casting Epoxy Resin for Countertops, Cups, Tumblers & Crafts | High-Gloss Liquid Glass Finish

This products is easy to use and works great on my products long as you follow the directions correctly

I'm an expert at this now it seems. This is epoxy resin, it is FDA approved and once cured send to be completely stable.Pot/working time is 30-40 minutes. Cure time is a minimum of 24 hours for small-medium pieces. I've only had one piece yellow. It's UV RESISTANT once cured, however, the sun destroys everything eventually. I've encapsulated insects, flowers, mixed in dyes, glitters and sand, I know everything now. This is a great working product, but there are somethings you should know: The ratio is 1:1, there's no wiggle room there, period. If your mix is slightly off you will have a eternally tacky piece, measure with precision or work with something more forgiving. MIX! Mix until you're bored to tears and then mix some more, mixing in transparent semi-flexible cups (like the medicine cups provided) let you see if there are streaks, swirls, or cloudiness/filled with micro bubbles, all of these are signs that you're cutting corners on mixing. That mix should be clear, some bubbles are okay, but I'll get to that. You only have 40 minutes to mix in your additives, work quickly and be prepared. Keep your work space ready for the occasional sticky and incontrollable spill. Clean with alcohol while it's still wet, acetone probably works better but I ain't got time for that. Your enbedded items should be dry, slightly heat resistant, as I've clocked my resin curing at 170-degrees F for a 25oz piece. The thicker/bigger your piece is the higher the temp will be while curing, most small jewelry pieces experience little to no heating. If your embed is wet, your piece will eventually fail, bugs that seem dry might cook hidden fluids and wreck your piece, flowers that aren't dry will cook and discolor, keep that in mind. Dyes and glitters are the safest but honestly sometimes it just comes out looking cheap, just do you, okay? I've found that it takes 24 hours to be able to demold but another 24 hours until the tackiness is completely gone and the pieces are COMPLETELY CURED. I've also put a lot of finger prints on things in my impatience, do just forget about your piece for 48 hours, then demold. Also I don't wear gloves because this stuff is sooo sticky. I've read the SDS and technical data and you probably shouldn't but they don't make gloves that make that reasonable yet. If you have large bubbles, you can heat your piece up with a WARM hair dryer or do it like I do and just use a fire place lighter and hold a steady flame, ~1 second, over the surface bubble and it will pop right away. Otherwise smaller bubbles tend to de-gas by themselves while curing, if it's cloudy, as in filled with micro bubbles, try the hair dryer and gently warm up your material/resin surface, maybe a few tappy-taps on a solid surface, and a silent prayer to the Resin Gods might help too. If this is too much for you, it's okay to give up, it is an expensive, messy, and regularly frustrating hobby to have to learn from trail and error, so I hope someone can learn from my mistakes. Good luck. Cheers mate!

I began doing tumblers a couple months ago, and originally I had chosen another epoxy. For some reason those cups never turned out quite right no matter what I did. I heard about this epoxy and suddenly all the issues I was having went away. I mix for a couple minutes, coat my tumbler, then gently hit it with a heat gun and it's perfect. No bubbles. It's perfectly clear. I feel like it's very forgiving as far as mixing too because there are a few times I think my measurements were slightly off and it still hardened and did what it's supposed to do. There is a slight odor, but it's not bad at all. This is a solid product, and it goes a long way. Definitely recommend this to anyone who is interested in making tumblers.

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I restore vintage 1966 figures that had space helmets with visors. The visors are not always present with the helmet. Also the figures heads were a soft material and are missing noses or were chewed on. I have casted replacement visors and heads with this resin with no trouble using silcone molds. I do use a vacum chamber and the resin comes out crystal clear. I am new to mold making but follow the instructions and stir thoroughly and all is good. They also make tints to color the resin.

Man I wish I could give half stars. Cause this is really just a 3.5 stars for me, but I'll give them 4. The lack of stars has nothing to do with the quality of the product. It worked well for what I was using it for. Which was using it in silicon molds to make diff things. My problem comes from the off gassing it produces. Omg. It is bad. I did one small pour, about 50ml. I did it in my room with the window open and fan on. Circulating the air. It didnt help. It stunk up my whole room and my upstairs. It took 2 whole days to get the smell out after I put my project outside. Partly due to me leaving the bottles in my room. I could smell the chemical smell THROUGH the bottles. Like wtf. The reason I am irritated at this is because the second type of epoxy resin I've bought. The first one I bought I didnt have any of these problems. I could do multiple pours and molds without all the bad smell and horrible off gassing. I used the Art N' Glow one. It has no VOC's and low fume smells. Doing the same thing in my room I didnt even notice it with it. I also suggest always work with this stuff in a well ventilated area. I am gonna use the rest of what I have of the alummite stuff outside only. Which is a pain trying to keep dust and other stuff out of my molds. So long story short. It does its job fine. Just sticks to high heaven. If dont want to deal with this go with Art N' Glow epoxy resin. Of course I've only used Art N' Glow once, but I'm already in love with it. Thanks for reading this far if you did. I hope this helps.

I have had my fair share of epoxies. This one is by far my favorite one. No yellowing. Cures within 24 hours. It does have a small odor that my husband noticed.

I never used this product before but needed a FDA food approved resin for a project. This stuff is magic. It is a 1-1 mix, easy to work with, slower work and cure time with a beautiful result. As far as I could tell from my many hours of research for such a product, Alumilite is the ONLY FDA food approved clear resin available at a reasonable price. It cures clear but can be dyed with translucent color or with an opaque white base & then qdding an additional color. Amazon has the best pricing on this product, including direct ordering from the manufacturer. I do wish Amazon offered the 2 gal size. The product has a shelf life of 1 year so ordering larger quantities would not present a problem. Be aware that Alumilite Amazing Clear Casting Resin is the only FDA food approved resin offered by Alumilite. Their other clear, water and white resins DO NOT meet the FDA requirements.