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I personally prefer to let items cool naturally.”Īnd she followed up with a response to Ed Street by saying… “my son is a metallurgist but has had extensive experience with polymers prior to choosing metals. Otherwise, the process of rapid cooling is neither helpful nor detrimental as long as the clay has cured/heated to the proper temp for the proper length of time. Unless there are air bubbles trapped with the clay, it should not cause the clay to crack/break. It does not strengthen the bonds nor make them weaker. Susan said… “This is per my son (the Materials engineer)… In the lab, ice water baths are used to slow down polymer reactions. Just wanted to link to this Facebook post that Binky Melnick initiated regarding this quenching topic… and in particlular… there was a few comments posted by Susan Wener that are worth noting… To subscribe, click here… Quenching Polymer Clay In Ice Water – Is It A Wives Tale? … the Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.Īlso, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. The more Likes a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. Oh and don’t forget to give these videos a Thumbs Up click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. My goal is to help you to learn quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.

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#Translucent polymer clay and super heat professional#

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My conclusion… save your ice for Iced Tea or Iced Coffee, because it doesn’t make a difference… except I suppose if you need your clay cool in a hurry!.

I tried to tear them), to see if quenching improved the strength… there was no discernable difference in strength between any of the samples tested. All the samples were bent, folded and torn (well.

The samples were then tested for strength.

Then I tested the thicker pieces for improved clarity… no difference there either.

Hmm… starting to think this quenching thing really is a wives tale!.

The quenched clay and the non-quenched clay were identical.

Next, I tested for clarity by placing thin samples against a text background, to see how well you could see through the translucent clay.

I would say that these results are typical for translucent polymer clay, in general. Both of the thicker pieces have an identical yellowish hue with low translucency… and the thin samples, both have an identical whitish shade with my translucency test.

I tested both sets of baked samples (the quenched set and the non-quenched set), to see if there is any difference between the two… with regards to clarity and strength.

All of the samples were baked at 275F for 1 hour.Each sample set has two different chips of Premo White Translucent rolled to an 8 playing cards thickness, and the other to a 1 playing card thickness.I have two sets of test samples… one was left to cool naturally, and the other is plunged into ice water while it was still hot.There has been some discussion around this topic that claims the quenching process is just a wife’s tale.Today’s test will show whether or not that is actually the case and whether it makes a difference at all.I used to think (because people had told me), that plunging hot polymer clay into a bath of ice water would give it strength and improve clarity to with translucent clays.Quenching Polymer Clay right out of the oven… into ice water… is this something you should do… or not?.Video #640: I used Premo translucent polymer clay to test for strength and clarity… watch the video to see my results.