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Thread: How do you polish a mold?

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    How do you polish a mold?

    Quote Originally Posted by sknhgy View Post
    Also, how do you polish the top of the blocks and the bottom of the sprue cutter? Thank you.
    You don’t want to touch the top of the blocks. But you can stone the bottom of the sprue plate. I do this w/ every mold I buy. Except for the ones made by Miha. Those plates are perfectly flat w/ no burrs. I really like NOE molds but the sprue plates always have burrs which will scratch the top of the blocks if not taken care of. You really see the inconsistency in how flat they are when you start removing the bluing from them. But they work great after being stoned.

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    ^^^^^ good point about checking the bottom of the sprue plate - even on new molds .

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    ^^^That there is good advise...gonna do it to mine now.

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    Here is a simple trick that you may be surprised at how well it works and that is use a #2 pencil and color the cavities with the pencil lead.

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