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[dr thrust]

hi, has anybody tried one yet? i've just made my first stars(cut) and would like to roll some next time

[digger]

hi, has anybody tried one yet? i've just made my first stars(cut) and would like to roll some next time

Yep I tried one late last year. As has been discussed it was absolutely useless with standard formula. There would be a need to reformulate to get the right consistency (for rolling and extruding), so as a consequence mine went straight in the bin. Back to the star roller and star plate.

[dr thrust]

thanks! ho well at least i know now, thanx for the quick reply guys, i only had to wait five months

[digger]

thanks! ho well at least i know now, thanx for the quick reply guys, i only had to wait five months

Sorry for the sllllllllooooow reply just browsing this afternoon and noticed the unanswerd question. It would have been great if it had worked but hey ho.

Edited by digger, 23 April 2008 - 09:26 PM.

[pyromaniac303]

Sorry for the sllllllllooooow reply just browsing this afternoon and noticed the unanswerd question. It would have been great if it had worked but hey ho.

Maybe a star comp with a high resin content would be sticky and rollable, though the resin solvent would more than likely damage the plastic on your boilie roller. I might give it a go eventually with some chlorate based stars which tend to burn whatever else you mix in with them, so I can have a reasonably high resin to star comp ratio.

[digger]

Maybe a star comp with a high resin content would be sticky and rollable, though the resin solvent would more than likely damage the plastic on your boilie roller. I might give it a go eventually with some chlorate based stars which tend to burn whatever else you mix in with them, so I can have a reasonably high resin to star comp ratio.

Yes it is probable that a comp could be modified to work.

However I would rather guide my work towards the effect rather than the a specific way of making stars as it is easy to use a plate or a roller (for testing a star plate is probably quicker than a boilie roller as you know).

[pyrotrev]

An interesting application though might be for making the inside bit for colour changing stars rather more quickly than a standard star roller (I'm thinking biggish stars here).

[digger]

An interesting application though might be for making the inside bit for colour changing stars rather more quickly than a standard star roller (I'm thinking biggish stars here).

Yep I suppose that is possible, but with a good set of screens it should be possible to get good sizing anyway. When I tried the boilie roller I did only try a couple of compositions, but it was incredibly frustrating and not a single round star.

[GalFisk]

Veline color system comps wetted with acetone have a doughy concistence which may work. They're quite stringy though, which may cause problems, and the red gum stains everything. The acetone is murder to most plastics as well, but if they're HDPE or teflon it will be ok.