It worked !

[ronnie]

I love Ray's work on flocking heads and when I have some special Joes that need to be top shelf, I do not call on anyone but Ray.

This is my long story of what I just did to have some fun with the hobby, and it worked.
I just love when something works and felt the need to share the fun.

Not having the big machine for flocking (like the big boys I'm jealous on) I was thinking that if I had the right adhesive
I could just wing it by something I thought over for a long time.

I wanted the flock material to shoot out straight (standing up) onto a good thin coat of
the "right" adhesive.

I tried model glue (yuuuuk) I tried crazy and super glue ( hardens quicker than you think, and your fingers wind up getting the best flock job that is water and fire proof....long story )


Then finally payed attention to Ray's board and advice in the area that talks about adhesives.

Now for most of you pros out there reading this, I sound like a five year old describing my first slice of pizza.

For me and maybe some newbies out there reading, this was tough business cause I do not have patience, and details...well lets just say I always mess up.Hope it inspires some to just go for it.

Although there are many adhesives and combos of them to use as Ray tells us,
I heard in one of the threads that a 30 minute two part epoxy was a good start, and a company called "Great Planes"
sold it.

Then went to a local hobby store (4 blocks away) and they had it.

So I used my wifes favorite chemical for removing anything...acetone ( nail polish remover ) to
degrease (prep)the heads but I am sure there is a pro chemical out there.(tip appreciated)
I let it dry, and then mixed a one to one measure of the two part epoxy wich allowed me to
have 1/2 an hour to evenly brush on the milky looking stuff.

By the way when mixing this, there is
a very hard resin that seems to be dried up in the bottle, but just have patience cause if you keep squeezing, it comes out, and
then mix the loose stuff one to one thouroghly.

Then I put some flocking into my handy dandy flock dispenser ( a plastic ketchup container found in $.99 cents stores)
and shook it up occasionally and used a salt shaker method and squeeze method....not rocket science just cover the head in flock that shoots out of the tip.
After 8 hours for full curing and drying it is just awesome and passed my mini noogy test of running my finger back and forth on the top of the heads.

The result is a fun way to get an old joe looking new ( or better than before), or a moden joe looking retro 70's to blend into the team.

If it were not for Ray and the message board I would have been lost with flocked fingers for sure.

Thanks guys.

Hope you like the pictures, and if you have any tips please let me know.

They can be seen in my Projects and stuff here:
flockconcepts.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=projects&thread=269

.........more pictures to come as I think I am obsessed with flocking heads now.


-Ronnie

[Ray (Flock Man)]

I've been a little busy lately so I've read, but have for the most part been missing from this forum and most others... hell, I even slept through the late NE Club meeting and didn't get there. I have been following this squeeze bottle flocking project and I'm very impressed with the results. I have seen others do the same type of thing and once again it proves that if you get into this you can do it, which ever way works for you.

It's good to see people still working out their own ways of doing this.
Like I always say, my way isn't the law or what everyone should do. It's what I know and it works for me. If it works for others fine, but if there are other methods that work better for a person, I'm all for it.

Nice job. Know that once you get a good result you will be hooked.
Fun stuff, I remember that excitement... it's the best.

Ray

[aiwaloki]

Thanks for sharing the info..

I have not popped on in a while..

Nice job,

Jay