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[chemicalwazi]

Hi All

Did anyone manage to get hold of/find a supplier for Red Gum

i would love some, its my missing ingrediant!

[miniskinny]

If you guys are looking for some suppliers in general for the uk...This website can find stuff anywhere in the world:Chemical Supplier Search Database
hope this helps
EDIT: you can just search for "Chemical" or a general name like "Pyrotechnic" and it should display some results.

Edited by miniskinny, 15 August 2004 - 02:20 AM.

[adamw]

www.sourcerer.co.uk can also be useful.

[alany]

I've always had to get my redgum from Skylighter, strange because the Yacca industry in Australia is quite well established. Skylighter redgum is expensive to buy milled, I get the chunky stuff, a few seconds in the coffee mill reduces it a fine powder with that wonderful sweet smell.

Shellac is available at the hardware store here in AU. It should be widely available anywhere, it is used in high-end polishing, any specialist paint place should carry it. Unfortunately shellac usually comes as flakes and needs to be milled.

[Mortartube]

For all the Brits here, why don't you all club together and go to A.F Suter in London. I'm pretty sure that they do red gum, I know that they do Accaroides, Gum Arabic & Shellac.
They have a website, just Google A.F Suter Shellac

[Mortartube]

Here you go

Address

Thames Ho
18 Park St
London
SE1 9EQ
United Kingdom

Map

London SE1 companies

Telephone, fax and web
Tel: (020) 7403 6555
Fax: (020) 7378 8582

http://www.afsuter.com

[sasman]

Has anyone ever made an order from A F Suter? for Red Gum...I have called them and they Call called it Yacca powder.. is it exactly the same as Red Gum? ..

[Yugen-biki]

Red gum is also known as "Yacca" or "accroides resin".

Same same, but different. ;-)

[sasman]

I have only ever got red gum from skylighter it was a reddish brown powder.. Suter's only sell 25 kg amounts so i would like be sure it the same stuff...


Last year i wanted some SGRS (Soluble Glutionous Rice Starch).. i found an art shop selling Rice starch under the binders section so bought a few Kg..But then read

Non-glutinous rice starch is available as a binder from some art suppliers. Unfortunately, it is inferior and leaves cavities in stars.  Glutinous type is not widely available outside the far-east, although I?m sure someone has a supplier for it.

after reading what BigG said i never ever bothered to use it..

I have tried to get some 10 lbs of SGRS from http://www.pyrosupplies.com even though postage cost far more than the actual product i would like to have some SGRS.. but for some reason pyrosupplies wont send outside the USA at the moment..

Anyone got advice on getting some SGRS?..

[Pretty green flames]

I think Steve sell SGRS on his web site.

But i think Inoxia is down right now. Maybe it would be worth a try to contact Steve through the PM.

[karlfoxman]

do you think any of these will be shellac suited to pyro?http://www.tryrelics.co.uk/catalogue/D/11

Edited by karlfoxman, 06 July 2005 - 01:16 PM.