I'm using essential plastic and don't get it over 350 usually 340 I add about 6 drops of stabilizer to it but after 2nd reheat it changes color makes it usually darker. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or is it just the nature of plastic? Thanks
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I'm using essential plastic and don't get it over 350 usually 340 I add about 6 drops of stabilizer to it but after 2nd reheat it changes color makes it usually darker. Is there something I'm doing wrong? Or is it just the nature of plastic? Thanks
Are you heating and stirring in short increments?
Yes no more than a minute at a time
On initial heat I do mine for 1.5 minutes and then 20 second increments.
Before the plastic has a chance to set up after the initial cooking add some stabilizer and stir it in good so its in the plastic before you hit it with heat again. Also, the essential plastic doesn't need to be brought up to 350 or even 340 for the reheat. Try bringing it to 330 using 20 second shots and stirring between hits with the microwave. If the plastic is a lump turn it over between the shots of heat.
If your reheating I use scissors and cut up the plastisol and heat in short bursts . Im reheating 1/2 cup amounts . Cutting it up solved my burning issues. Also adding stabilizer is your friend��
It's the plastisol i had the same problem!! And i use stabilizer and a digital thermometer. Cub48
Something a lot of people over-look when they are working with ANY plastic in a microwave is that when you heat a cup to, say 350 degrees, the plastic will continue to cook to a higher temperature after it has been removed from the microwave. The larger the volume, the higher they after-cooking temp can get and the longer it will continue to cook. Essential is the most forgiving plastic there is when it comes to heat tolerance but if allowed to get too hot it like other plastics will turn. Stabilizer helps buffer any higher heat within reason. Its most likely not the plastic product but rather you need to figure out at what temp to remove the heat source from your plastic so that this after-cooking doesn't over-heat the plastic yet still gets it to conversion on new plastic or at what temp the re-melt has fully melted.
If you are using a microwave, cut a cardboard panel to fit the glass plate inside that your cups set on. These glass trays with a glass cup on it can create some real bad hot spots and the cardboard will help break that possibility up. Even the Pyrex cups can develop hot spots within the glass they are made of and if you are not aware of this you'll be toasting any plastic you put in there.
Most plastic issues are started at the operator.
I have never seen plastic rise in temp once the micro powers down. That would be new to me.
I Had a forum member in the shop just this morning, and we took a 1 1/4 cup of plastic, Initial time of 2:30, then another 30 before we ever stirred it. I then took it to 400 plus, and reheated it to 400 plus and we shot some clear baits.
Hes a essential guy as well. I was just showing off.
What most people don't realize is that heat stabilizer also separates, and you can not mix a box, that has no air pocket in it effectively.
Oh Tom right about this. Seems more of a summer time thing or just more noticeable when it's hot in your work area. Did it to me Saturday. Over cooked some yellow Chart. Turn kind of orange.
Here are some replies to some things in your comment that I just don't quite understand or have found to not be quite correct, but hey, I only pour baits for a living and cook on average 30-40 gallons a week, so what the hell would I know about this.Quote:
Originally Posted by CTom
Heat stabilizer is your friend,
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I have never used heat stabilizer in all the years that I've been doing plastics the type of plastic that I've been buying I do not need a stabilizer is seemed to do fine from what I've been using do-it is a fantastic plastics.
What are you saying you do or do not use the do-it plastic?Quote:
Originally Posted by snake River
we use plastics from about three different companies they are just one of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by tourdriver
I have heat stabilizer and hardly use it...
Are you not using it with the essential plastic?Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNip
I do when I'm remember too and it's usually only with my chartreuse. Yes I'm using Essentials. Thinking of getting something different next time.
[QUOTE=Angler's Choice;3275658]Here are some replies to some things in your comment that I just don't quite understand or have found to not be quite correct, but hey, I only pour baits for a living and cook on average 30
My comments are coming from my observations while I am cooking. I see things different from you. I have several plastics on hand and am not exclusive to Do-It, but do get MY best results using their plastics. You're right though.....even if you go thru 30-40 gallons weekly as you suggest, there is no way that you can know what I experience doing my own thing. At one time I had a great deal of respect for you but you can buzz off now and I'll leave this site to you and your cronies.
Hey guys wasn't wanting to start a fight here. I did change and started doing something that seems to have solved the problem. I started cutting up the leftover into small pieces and seems to have solved the problem. Thanks again