Back To The Boiled Bases Again (weight Or Flash)

[Shabby J]

Originally Posted by JIMBO

• If ALL you wanna do is remove the flash, then a lighter is ALL you need.
  
• IF you wanna add weight, strength and speed, then you boil with baby oil.

I don't think there's any two ways about it. I do know that the boiled bases I used in L.A. a few years ago don't hold up to the bases I've tweaked as of late, so now there is no need for me to ever boil again and I get to use ff.coms without cutting my fingers off trying to make weight!!!

Just my $.02.

I may have to do an experiment of my own. Has anyone ever weighed a base alone, no figure on it, then boiled it with an oil additive and weighed the same exact base again? How much weight is this adding. I can see boiling for the flash removal part and maybe to make the prongs more supple, but adding weight??? This puzzles me, not saying it's not true, but I would like to try this and break out the old jewelers scale and see the weight gain. I just can't imagine it being significant enough to make a difference.

Like I said, I have never boiled and I do not know, you guys seem to, though I am curious.

Shabby J

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Originally Posted by Shabby J

I may have to do an experiment of my own. Has anyone ever weighed a base alone, no figure on it, then boiled it with an oil additive and weighed the same exact base again? How much weight is this adding. I can see boiling for the flash removal part and maybe to make the prongs more supple, but adding weight??? This puzzles me, not saying it's not true, but I would like to try this and break out the old jewelers scale and see the weight gain. I just can't imagine it being significant enough to make a difference.

Like I said, I have never boiled and I do not know, you guys seem to, though I am curious.

Shabby J

from what i have seen, it soaks up the baby oil. i recently obtained a couple of boiled bases, they were regular green ttc's, and they were larger and the side walls were thicker than a normal ttc.

[jeff]

I have some boiled bases that are nearly twice that size I will bring them on Tuesday.

[Shabby J]

I have never boiled, but I may have to try it out.


Shabby J