Mae Vit W ball clay from Thailand is a fine particle hydrous aluminum silicate clay with good plasticity, binding, handling strength, and fired properties. It is used in blended clay for throwing, slip casting, hand building and sculpting.
Commonly used as fillers in paper making, and crafts like papier mache, kinetic sand, adhesive, ceramics clay body and ceramic manufacture. Its high green strength is needed in tiles press molding, slip casting decorative ceramics, tiles and sanitarywares, smooth extrusion of refractory ceramics. As a binder in green sand casting or loss wax casting. Fertiliser binding as water soluble media in slow release. Knife makers mixes ball clay with mullite as a paste to form the hamon designs on blades to control heating where hardening should be. Plastic ball clay and Mullite have high insulation and good thermal expansion. Paint formulation as a suspension additive, thickeners and textural thixotropic agent. A swelling agent with water, ball clay function as a drilling mud.
Mix with Multifilla premix mortar for slump free sculpting in 2D and 3 D cement sculpture decorative art.
Ball clay mixed with matt sealer as gesso as base coat in gold gilding. As fine particles clay, sanding when dried with mesh 2000 sand paper for a smooth unblemish surface essential in gold gilding perfection.
Chemical Name: Hydrous aluminium silicate
Granulometric Data and Physical Characteristics :
Packing 5 Kg, 50 kg from showroom.
Color: Raw color grey. Fired color off white to terracotta depending on other minerals in clay body formulation.
Non flammable, non toxic and non explosive. Recommended in handling of any powdered material a face mask be used.
