Long story long........ I was filling some shallow checking with some ca glue and didn't have any accelerator/activator and didn't want to wait 2-3 days for amazon and definitely didn't want to brave the holiday shoppers in any store so Google being my friend I looked up diy activator.
Many suggestions and recipes. I tried the one with water and baking soda and it worked in a way but seemed to harden the top and still soft inside. And it was rough with a whitish surface which I'm guessing was too much baking soda. It did work to keep it from running until it hardened though and since I was going to sand it anyway I considered it somewhat of a success.
The actual activator dries quickly and I read on the Starbound site that theirs is acetone based.. Any chemist know what that recipe would be or what to mix with the acetone if anything?
Other recipes said isopropyl alcohol some even said just straight water if it had a lot of minerals and a high pH.
So since I'm sure someone has been in the same situation I thought I'd ask here.
This experiment was on another 12 inch snowman so it's not exactly a critical structure thing, just cosmetic.
Many suggestions and recipes. I tried the one with water and baking soda and it worked in a way but seemed to harden the top and still soft inside. And it was rough with a whitish surface which I'm guessing was too much baking soda. It did work to keep it from running until it hardened though and since I was going to sand it anyway I considered it somewhat of a success.
The actual activator dries quickly and I read on the Starbound site that theirs is acetone based.. Any chemist know what that recipe would be or what to mix with the acetone if anything?
Other recipes said isopropyl alcohol some even said just straight water if it had a lot of minerals and a high pH.
So since I'm sure someone has been in the same situation I thought I'd ask here.
This experiment was on another 12 inch snowman so it's not exactly a critical structure thing, just cosmetic.