Technical help for Waxes

How-To

We strive to ensure that our customers are using Freeman and Ferris waxes properly, thus enabling them to realize the full advantages that our waxes have to offer. In that regard, we have created this How-To section to provide helpful user tips and other useful reference data.

Jewelry Injection Wax
Operating and Usage
Guidelines

Injection Wax Trouble
Shooting Guide

How to Identify Counterfeit
Jewelry Injection Wax

How to Identify Counterfeit
Ferris® File-A-Wax® Wax

Technical help for Investment Powder

TECHNICAL DATA

MIXING INSTRUCTIONS FOR SC SERIES, KC2000, SV20

MIXING INSTRUCTIONS FOR SC-P

WATER / POWDER RATIOS

BURNOUT CYCLES

TROUBLESHOOTING

Technical help for Rubber

Castaldo Products Instructions (click here)

*General*
1.	Mold Making – Guide to Solving Common Mold Making Problems (Specific to natural rubber, but useful for all mold materials).
2.	An Easy and Inexpensive Way to Make Jewelry Molds at Home.
3.	How to make molds without using a knife. The Powder / Cream Separation Technique and the use of Mold Lock formers.
4.	Youtube demo on cutting a Castaldo rubber mold.
	*Natural Rubber*
1.	Mold Making – Natural Rubber Fact Sheet and Technical Bulletin .
2.	Mold Making – Guide to Solving Common Mold Making Problems (Specific to natural rubber, but useful for all mold materials).
3.	The Castaldo Moldmatic® System
4.	No Shrink Pink®
	Silicone Vulcanizing Rubber
1.	Silicone Molding Rubber – General Instructions for Super High Strength®, Econosil ®and SuperStretch™
2.	VLT®
3.	Rapido™
	RTV Rubber
1.	LiquaCast®
2.	LiquaCast®Long-Life™
3.	LiquaGlass®
4.	LiquaFast ICE™
5.	QuickSll®
	Injection Wax
1.	Wax Injection Problems and Solutions.

FAQs and Problem Solving (click here)

1.	Mold Making – Guide to Solving Common Mold Making Problems
2.	How to Test Your Vulcanizer
3.	Removing Bits of Rubber Stuck Behind Stones After Mold-making
4.	Why Won’t My LiquaCast® Mold Harden??
5.	“My Liquid Rubber RTV Molds Become Soft & Unusable”
6.	I’m Having Trouble with Quick-Sil®
7.	I’m Having Trouble with No Shrink Pink
8.	Rubber Molds Curl or Stick To Mold Plates

Published Instruction Articles (click here)

1.	Jewelry Molds Using VLT® Rubber jewelry Prototyping Process Permission: Objet
2.	“The Wait is Over” direct casting with VLT by John Shanahan
3.	How to Make Rubber Jewelry Molds by Larry Kallenburg
4.	How to Duplicate Your Jewelry by Lee Martin
5.	Jewelers With Spunk Beat Out the Spelunker by Tom Arnold
6.	Some Advice: How to Cut & Use Rubber Jewelry Molds by Peter Rowe
7.	Cutting Air Release Vents (Airing Out Our Differences) by Bernard Reller
8.	Making Molds Part 1 by Donna Shimazu Making Molds Part 2 by Donna Shimazu,.lapidaryjournal.com
9.	How to Make Vulcanized Rubber Molds by John Donivan, donivanandmaggiora.com
10.	Making Mold with VLT Rubber (Castaldo VLT Mold Rubber) by Steve Inlow, jewelersincmagazine.com
11.	Packing a Rubber Mold by Steve Inlow, jewelrsincmagazine.com
12.	Cutting a Rubber Mold by Steve Inlow , jewelrsincmagazine.com
13.	The Art of Mold Making by Suzanne Wade, mjsa.org