[Rockhounds] Museum GEL

[Sandra B. Gee]

Jay,

I used it once for displaying a miniature sized
fluorite specimen.  My acrylic base had some pegs to
hold up the specimen and I decided to use the Museum
Gel as extra support.  I found that the stuff comes
out of the jar as a goo but then over time, it "self
leveled" and becomes a thin film of clear goo on the
acrylic base I had the fluorite on.

Based on this one experience, I think this product
would work better in a situation where you had some
sort of "well" to contain the product or else it
flattens out.  It is by no means in the same category
as that now blue (once white) mineral putty with
respect to ablility to support, say, a thin aquamarine
floater crystal all on its own.

Sandra.



--- jaybates <jaybates at rcn.com> wrote:

> Tim we use it all the time in the San Francisco Bay
> area. I have used it 
> under a spheres collection in a show case with the
> spheres sitting on 
> pieces of petrified wood. If the spheres were not
> well balanced they 
> would tend to slowly work there way to the edge,
> flowing through the 
> putty, and fall off. It works fine on a flat
> surface.  Jay
> 
> Tim Fisher wrote:
> > Has anyone had experience with this?
> >
> >
>
http://www.alwaysbrilliant.com/aa/aspx-products/PID-36/PD-20033/bb/Museum+Gel.htm
> 
> >
> >
> > I am looking at ways to support spheres
> "invisibly" (yes I have the 
> > clear plastic rings. I just don't trust them).
> >
> >
> > Tim Fisher
> > Ore-ROCK-On!
> > Email address at http://OreRockOn.com 
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