frag plugs

[chadfarmer]

anyone make there own

i made a mold just havent tryed to make any, yet

didnt know if there was any tricks

 

[impur]

I'm making some this weekend. I plan to use a box of sand, use a lid to a jar to make the mold in the sand, then just poor in the argocrete. This will be for frag discs. To make the plugs i think i'll use a baby bottle nipple and press it into the sand in the middle of the disc mold to create the peg that goes thru the eggcrate.

I'll take lots of pics :D

 

[minibowmatt]

How many are you making at a time? What is the demolding time like?

 

[Randy]

I have been wanting to do this for some time now does anyone have a good link with the mix ratio?

 

[Zeppelin]

Here's the mix ratio from the GARF site:

Materials

1. 60 LB pound bag of Portland concrete sand mix
2. 18 LB pound bag of "Caribsea Agranite Reef Sand"

Site link is www.garf.org

 

[impur]

I plan to use 2 parts cement, 1 part sand, 1 part water. I'll probably try a few different ratios. I plan to make roughly 20-30 discs/plugs.

 

[Randy]

I plan to use 2 parts cement, 1 part sand, 1 part water. I'll probably try a few different ratios. I plan to make roughly 20-30 discs/plugs.

let me know how it works out.

 

[impur]

Will do, i'll put pics up as well.

 

[chadfarmer]

in the mold

this is the final next to boston aqua farms plug

 

[impur]

Wow yours turned out good. I have pics, forgot to put em up. I'll get mine up later today. I used sand and made some square discs. Turned out ok, the first batch was way to runny.

 

[chadfarmer]

i am goign to program the size a little different on the cnc to be more like the B.A.F.

MAYBE RUN THE DISKS ALSO:toothy3:

 

[impur]

Ok here was my first attempt. The sand was too wet to make a decent mold, but i went with it anyway.

Supplies

Too runny.

Second attempt

 

[impur]

Here is the results of the first attempt. I got frustrated and just dumped in the rest of the concrete.

Result of attempt 2 is much better

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Cool! How long are you going to let them cure and what method are you going to use?

 

[impur]

I also decided to try some rock

Supplies

I dug out how i wanted to top of this rock to look. I'm making sort of a tall table type rock, so i am making it upside down at this point.

Then some salt to make it porous

 

[impur]

Well i'm gonna stick them in a bucket out in my backyard. Its still going to rain a lot next month i'm sure. I'll just let the rain refill it. If it doesn't rain, i'll probably just put em in the toilet tank ;)