[Rockhounds] Museum GEL

[jaybates]

I was using the putty not the gel. I don't have any experience with the 
gel.

Sandra B. Gee wrote:
> 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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