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best way to degrease
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12/07/15 03:22 PM
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I have gotten almost all of the membranes and such off of my first attempt at a euro mount. I read that it needs to be degreased next, but there's a lot of mixed info. I'm considering the borax soak. I am trying to stay out of the pocketbook much for materials. I don't know if I want to whiten it. I like the look of the offwhite bone now. I don't want it to turn yellow for sure. Borax - Will it degrease like it's supposed to? Would it discolor the horns if they are submerged in the solution for a while? Is there a better way? Here's what I've got now.
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/07/15 04:26 PM
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Did you boil it to get it to that point?
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/07/15 05:27 PM
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/07/15 06:41 PM
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Boiling may have caused the grease to set into the skull making degreasing more difficult. I'll start out by saying Im no professional but have degreased quite a few with a combination of dawn, ammonia and patience. Heating the water will help but may not be an option for you. Some of the professionals will hopefully chime in also. Good luck.
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/07/15 09:04 PM
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Thanks.
Followed the diy you tube section, the only thing they all had in common was to boil the head first and remove as much as possible.
It'll be a learning experience. I think I would do this again. So far it hasn't been too bad.
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/08/15 01:14 AM
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I have completed numerous euro mounts for customers. After you have removed all the meat (which I do by boiling) I make a strong mixture of dawn and water and boil it again for a half an hour or so. I then wash it good and put it in a bucket of heavy dawn mixture again with a fish aquarium heater in the water for a week. Then rise it and let dry prior to bleaching. Try to keep the antlers out of the water as much as possible. If an area does lighten up then I used shoe polish to darken back.
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/09/15 10:20 PM
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Put oxi clean in your water when boiling. I us the liquid after you have removed most if not all meat and stuff change water and repeat will remove almost all grease and then boil in 1 to 3 mixture of peroxide/water for no more than 10 min to whiten!
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/09/15 11:21 PM
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I have had great luck degreasing with commercial degreaser.
I get a gallon of the stuff in the purple bottle at walmart or the hardware store, put it in a small trash can, and top us as needed with water to cover the skull.
usually ends up being about 90% degreaser and 10% water. Leave it to soak in the garage with no heating for about four or five days, and they come out nice.
I had several come out with a lot of yellow still in them when I was using dawn before I switched to the degreaser, but I didnt use any heat with the dawn, so that might make a difference.
Anyway, I am quite happy with the degreaser, and have had good luck on even greasier skulls like coyotes and hogs with it too.
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/10/15 03:27 PM
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/10/15 03:49 PM
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I do to many heads to wait a week on one that's why I use the oxi clean
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/11/15 05:06 PM
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I do well over 200 euro's a year for customers. Personally, I do not recommend any hard cleaners on a skull. I use dermestid beetles and maceration as my cleaning processes. Once the skull is clean, I alternate back and forth between dawn/heated water and 50% peroxide. Once all of the grease/fat is out, you will be able to tell when that happens, I use another process for the final whitening.
Good luck.
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Re: best way to degrease
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12/18/15 08:44 PM
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Put oxi clean in your water when boiling. I us the liquid after you have removed most if not all meat and stuff change water and repeat will remove almost all grease and then boil in 1 to 3 mixture of peroxide/water for no more than 10 min to whiten! X2 on the oxiclean. I got that tip from Eastman's hunting, worked great.
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