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This is my first time posting here. My name is Jenny and I'm excited about making orgonite, only made it one time many years ago but now I can devote some serious time and resource to this.
My question is so basic but what to do with oily shavings. Seems like I read about it weeks ago but of course I alludes me as I'm looking for the info now. Got a five pound box of aluminum shavings and it's so oily some of it worked through the card board of the box it was shipped in.
What's the best way to clean the batch?
Thanks
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Welcome on board!
When turning aluminum on a lathe, usually a water based cutting fluid is used, so just put the shavings in a bucket with a liberal amount of hot water, swish around, let soak, swish around, pour through a strainer.
Worked for me. Otherwise just chime in again.
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It might also be a real oil. A light coating on the shavings won't really hurt orgonite functionally. Maybe most has already been blotted.
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This went a lot better than I expected. It's really really hot in the desert where I live so just a few bucketfuls of hot hose water did the trick.It wasn't as oily as I thought it would be.
Thanks for the advice!
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