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Bev
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Joined: 17 Jun 2007
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 Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject: Storing Polymer Clay |
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I have hobby myself out of my home. My husband and I bought a new shed to house our riding mower. It is 12 x 24. Out of that shed he has built me a hobby room 12 x 8. And since I live in Florida. It get really hot. I have a small air-conditioner. But it will not be running all the time. So I am getting a small referigrator to store my polymer clays, oil paints and arcylic paints. And all my hobbies except my photographer equipment. Heat is not too good for lens. And I want to know. Would it be o.k. to store the clay there.
Thanks Bev. |
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Nairohe
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| Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2007 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I own clay that is about 5-7 years old and it's still fresh and maliable as the day I first purchased them. I live in Texas where it gets really hot and store my clay in a plastic toolbox in an ordinary closet. It's probably not the best place but from experience, it's always best to store them in a cool place so ideally a fridge or any cool environment would be fine as long as it's not hot enough to bake it. |
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Hiyoku Doku Doku
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| Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:32 pm Post subject: |
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| Nairohe wrote: | | I live in Texas where it gets really hot and store my clay in a plastic toolbox in an ordinary closet. It's probably not the best place but from experience, it's always best to store them in a cool place so ideally a fridge or any cool environment would be fine as long as it's not hot enough to bake it. |
Nairohe? Are you the same Nairohe from Animeboards? It's a truly small world if it is, but she used to live in California... did you move?
(Sorry for the OT hijacking of the thread. ^^;;; )
... actually I found some clays don't do well refrigerated imo, needing a lot of work to get it back to its original maliability, although I don't remember the brand. "Room temperature" works best for me. It takes a lot of heat to bake clay, so I don't worry about that, and I've lived in some hot, humid areas. |
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