Aging Fimo

Jul 12, 2016 4 Replies

We have a considerable collection of small items made from Fimo - the plastic clay stuff - things like buttons and badges. They have been hanging around for perhaps 20 years or more - mostly kept in a glass jar. Despite that, we really don't want to throw them away - mainly for sentimental reasons. The problem in keeping them is that they now stink. A horrible "chemical" smell - not that I can identify what might be in the olfactory cocktail. Yet they look perfect.



Is there any way of treating them to kill the smell without affecting their look and feel?


Not keeping them in a jar might help ;-)

You could try another hardening / heating process, see if that drives off any smell. They recommend 110 degrees C for 30 mins on the web site.

If it's OK to heat, heating is a great way to drive off volatiles. They will all come off at once though :)

NT

Pop them back into the oven at the original setting temperature.

Mike

Thanks - might have to try that.

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