How do you get a button off the mandrel?

Lush! · October 31, 2009, 04:27:46 PM

Quote from: Bluebottle on October 31, 2009, 04:26:33 PM
Can't you just make single hole buttons

Yep, they're called .... beads

Bluebottle · October 31, 2009, 04:42:23 PM

Are they

madpup · November 07, 2009, 05:09:32 PM

button off the mandrel? no probs do what i do, wait a while button/bead falls in half leaving mandrel free

Krysia@No98 · November 07, 2009, 07:24:09 PM

(really must try that olive oil...)

Tollgate-Debs · November 09, 2009, 07:37:56 PM

Update - made another button, double dipped and painted on bead release. Then soaked in olive oil and it fell off in one piece! Not a very pretty button, but skinnier than version one and a step in the right direction.

Debs

Krysia@No98 · November 09, 2009, 07:43:14 PM

Picture?

I am still to do the olive oil thing, must get my but into gear

Tollgate-Debs · November 09, 2009, 07:45:06 PM

I'll take a piccie, but no laughing please. My beads are OK, but my button is a bit of a stinker!

Debs

Krysia@No98 · November 09, 2009, 08:08:03 PM

no laughing. buttons are bloomin hard. Making one that is both of the mandrel and not broken is quite an achievement - really

Pat from Canvey · November 10, 2009, 01:32:56 PM

Fosterfire Smooth and Tuff is the recommended bead release for curved mandrels because you just pull the bead from the mandrel, no twisting involved. It would also work well for button mandrels. I've used it but I think it's only available from USA. Someone correct me if I'm wrong. I may have bought it from Zoozii. If so, Martin might consider importing it with his presses orders.

Hotglass28 · November 10, 2009, 02:25:48 PM

Have you tried soaking it for a while then grabing the bead and tapping end of the mandrel on a concrete floor, both ends. Might need to grasp the bead with a towel just in case it cracks in your hand.

I have done this before, had to be brutal with it too.

Denise