My first post. I just poured my pond with Woodland scenic Murky water resin. I have a pack of water lillies that I want to place on the water. But they have a stem that is about 1/4 long and you cant cut it off or the whole things comes apart; I ruined one of them already. But can one drill into the resin with a small drill bit and not screw up the resin. Thanks
By ruined, I take it you mean cut apart one grouping. I would say you haven’t ruined it. You can still place the leaves individually. makes for variation anyway. Most Lillie’s lay flat on the water anyway. You can drill into the resin carefully and slowly to a void damage. It will frost the inside of the hole. Best fix, mix up a couple drops of resin to ”glue” the stems into the hole. Dip the stem in the resin. Be careful of the amount on the stem. Stick into hole. The resin will fill the scratches in the hole and remove the frost look. I would start by drilling all the holes first and making sure it they are where you want them.
If you want. Make a small sample of resin and create a test ”pond”. To try out the process before working on the location. Test drill and size the holes on the test pond first. Y test pond I mean a small puddle of resin in a tinfoil cup.
Wolfie
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Totally agree about the test, first. If for no other reason than to learn how much "glup" to put on the step, so the excess doesn't ooze out everywhere.
Ed
You can drill into resin but you can also create "spider web" cracks in resin water rather easily. Perhaps covering the spot to be drilled with a bit of tape could prevent that kind of cracking.
Dave Nelson
I successfully drilled into Envirotex using DeWalt Pilot Point drill bits and a very slow drill speed.
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These bits do not have the traditional taper on the end, so they exert less stress outward from the hole.
I agree, you should do a test first.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
How long and thick is the stem? Could you heat a pin and drive it into the surface and get the stem to fit? The pad would cover any marring and discoloration.
If it's all in a cluster, like grapes or watercress, maybe cut them up and place them individually. We're talking 20 minutes at most......?
glue it on, who cares if it fall apart, just glue on the peices, one at a time.
Looking at pictures of water lilies, it looks like there are two components: the lily pads and the flowers.
The pads kind of float on top of the water. That seems pretty straightforward to install--just put a tiny dab of epoxy on the surface, and stick a pad on top of it.
The flower appears to be the thing needing a hole. But, looking at the pictures, the area around where you'd drill the hole is covered with pads. So the pads wil cover up any mistakes you make with a drill.
My thought is that you glue in some flowers, and then surround them with lily pads, as described above.
Seems easy enough. I'd still do a test shot, though.
Well the super glue held the pads together and the stems are only about a 16th in long' Drilling a hole was easy really' No damage to the resin. Will post a pic sometime when they let me.
Bigjim7Thanks guys I replied yesterday but it takes like 24 hours for my post to appear for some reason. I will try the super glue under the pad and cut stem and see if that will work. Thanks
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Here is a pic of my pond with the water lillies. Drilling into resin was just like drilling onto wood' no biggie. Pic does not do the pond justice. Did not notice the dust specks' Man the camera see's all thanks
Bigjim7Thanks I will.
Jim,
I am glad that all went well for you.
I am also glad you stuck it out past the moderated period. I hope to see a lot more of your work in the future.
Happy Railroading!
Nice lookin' pond!