{"id":17935,"date":"2013-10-24T03:05:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T10:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17935"},"modified":"2014-03-14T18:17:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T01:17:29","slug":"using-translucent-clay-to-clean-pasta-machine-tip-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/using-translucent-clay-to-clean-pasta-machine-tip-3\/17935\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Translucent Clay To Clean Pasta Machine Tip 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/?p=17935#video\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 0px; border: 0pt none;\" alt=\"Cleaning Pasta Machine Tip 3 Using Translucent Clay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/2013-10\/24-90438-cleaning-pasta-machine-tip3-translucentclay.jpg\" width=\"255\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Video #438:<\/span> You&#8217;ll be amazed how dirty your lump of cleaning clay will get over time.<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: large;\"><strong>Topics Covered In This Video:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-pasta-machine-cleaning-tip-1-baby-wipes\/17903\/\">Cleaning Your Pasta Machine Tip #1<\/a>, I showed you how to use a\u00a0 disposable kitchen or baby wipe to clean your pasta machine from the outside. Then in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/pasta-machine-cleaning-tip-2-scraper-build-up\/17916\/\">Cleaning Your Pasta Machine Tip #2<\/a>, you learned how to clean deeper by getting rid of scraper build up.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">In this video I&#8217;m going to show you how to keep your pasta machine, hands and workspace clean by using a chunk of translucent clay to pick up stray bits of polymer clay, glitter, lint and other dirt.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Now if you&#8217;ve ever used a glitter clay like the new Twinkle Twinkle or the White Glitter Clay by Premo, you will end up getting sparkly bits all over the place. And the next time you run a clean sheet of polymer clay through your pasta machine, it will likely pick up some stray glitter that was left behind.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">So one neat trick for catching glitter and other bits of old clay and dirt in your pasta machine, is to use a chunk (about 1\/2 pack of a 2oz block of Premo White Translucent), and run it through your pasta machine to pick up any stray bits.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Use the translucent clay between batches of different colors. Roll in your hands to pick up dirt, lint and black streaks on rollers&#8230; roll across your work surface&#8230; under your pasta machine&#8230; anywhere you want to keep clean.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I forgot to mention in the video, but I prefer to use Translucent clay over other colors of polymer such as white, because the translucent clay won&#8217;t leave any color residue on the next batch of clay being used in the machine.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">After you have used your translucent clay for a while, it will get quite dirty. However, there is no need for it to be wasted.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">You can use this dirty translucent clay as a base for other polymer clay techniques such as my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutorial-faux-pebble-beads-beach-jewelry-projects\/3978\/\">Faux Pebble Beads Tutorial<\/a> and other faux stone techniques.<a name=\"video\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Bh188r0FL7U?rel=0\" height=\"431\" width=\"575\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"font-size: large; color: #808080;\">Question of the Day:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Have you got any tips of your own for cleaning pasta machines or work spaces that you would like to share with us? We&#8217;d love to hear from you! Leave your answers in the comment section below.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">By the way, if you have a polymer clay question or challenge you&#8217;d like me to address in an upcoming video vlog, do post it in the comments below. I&#8217;d love to help you find quicker and easier ways to bring up the professionalism in your polymer clay art.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #808080;\">Oh and don&#8217;t forget to give these videos a<em> Thumbs Up<\/em> click at YouTube if you are enjoying them. The more <em>Likes<\/em> a video gets, the higher it rises in the searches. And that means even more people will be able to join in on this polymer clay journey of a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">Also, by subscribing to our YouTube Channel directly, you will receive notifications as soon as new videos are uploaded. To subscribe, click here&#8230;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bh188r0FL7U\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"external external_icon\">Cleaning Polymer Clay Pasta Machine Tip3 Translucent Clay<\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\">. The Subscribe Button is right near the top of that YouTube page.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Looking forward to hearing from you!<\/span><\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 575px;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 200px;\"><\/td>\n<td align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cindy Lietz Signature\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/cindy-sig.jpg\" width=\"114\" height=\"99\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Polymer Clay Tutor\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/images\/blog\/polymer-clay-tutor.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"26\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video #438: You&#8217;ll be amazed how dirty your lump of cleaning clay will get over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2662],"tags":[2607,2701,469,405],"class_list":["post-17935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pct-studio-tips","tag-faux-rocks-metals","tag-pasta-machines","tag-translucent","tag-white-clay-dirty-clean-wipes-pet-hair-lint-fuzz-dust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beadsandbeading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}