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rubber bowls for mixing plaster?

updated wed 24 sep 03

 

Claudia I Franco on tue 23 sep 03


Does anyone know where to get the black rubber bowls that are good to use
to mix plaster? They are hard to find. Like the green ones the dentists
use, but in black rubber. I ordered some green ones and they seem more
plasticky than rubbery. I've seen some kind of like the rubber from a
black toilet plunger? Thanks

Marvpots@AOL.COM on tue 23 sep 03


Depending on where you live, a sculpture supply house would be the place to
look for the small black rubber bowls, used actually to take smaller quantities
out of a mother batch, and then mix the plaster in the rubber bowl while the
plaster in the mother batch remains fairly liquid, without hardening, giving
you more time to work.

Hope this helps.

All the best.

Marvin Flowerman
marvpots@aol.com