mold weight questions

[alhughes]

checked out a website that had awesome prices on seamless mold but was wondering what kind of weight contraption would you use to hold it down in water baths. I DID A SEARCH, but nothing i could find to answer this. so please answer if you wish.

[SheilaW]

I rarely use a water bath but when I do, on a regular size pillar mold, then what I use are those round concrete thingies that I think are used to protect your sprinkler head in the yard.

[Scented]

Long time ago I bought some metal flexible weights, but that's for seams. I think you could hold that mold down with a rock or a glass. It shouldn't need anything overly heavy. I haven't done the waterbath in a long time.

[eugenia]

I use flexible mold weights, like these mold weights

[Scented]

Yeah that's the weight thing I was talking about E.

[Donita]

I bend the lead weights in half and put a few on top. Or use heavy wrenches. Be sure to leave room so you can poke relief holes. I don't like to water bath the seamless molds....sometimes they tip over and oops! Donita

[topofmurrayhill]

If you use the wick centering tools from EZ Wick they make a handy platform for the flexible mold weights. One tip...don't chew on those weights as they are made of lead. I found out the hard way and look at me now.

[mystical_angel1219]

I use flexible mold weights, like these mold weights

Well, I know who to send my mold weights to.

Those didn't work for me. I tried them with hurricanes and had quite the disaster. I went to Home Depot and bought some of that heavy duty chain link you can purchase by the foot. Linked them together and I slip right over the mold as a circle. Holds that sucker down like the Titanic.