The BK Stain Palette is designed allow ceramists to have a wide selection of stains available, with wells for up to 17 different shades, plus a mixing area for creating custom shades.

It has a simple, easy to use design, made from a heavy duty plastic and includes a lid that creates a tight seal to keep materials from drying out when not in use. The double shell design gives the BK Stain Palette a sturdy feeling, yet allows users to easily clean the palette by simply placing it under running water.

In addition, the price of the BK Stain Palette, less than $30, makes it an affordable addition for any lab and gives users the opportunity to buy multiple trays for different types of stains and modifiers.

Excellent additions to the BK Stain Palette include the BK-Medent Stain Brush Set, the BK-Medent Porcelain Mixing Stick or the BK-Medent Natural Kolinsky or Synthetic Porcelain Brushes.

This year's seventh issue of Resources is packed with information about our exciting new products - plus tips and tech info on many of our other products.

We are excited about our new line of Disposable Power Towels that help you keep a clean lab, as well as our new Eco-Friendly Disinfecting Solutions. These new cleaning and disinfecting products include:

Multi-Purpose Orange Cleaning Wipes - Single Textured
Multi-Purpose Orange Cleaning Wipes - Single Textured
Graffiti Wipes
TerraClean Surface Disinfecting Wipes
QS Plus Hand Sanitizing Wipes
Foaming Tea Tree Handwash

In addition, we'll be adding some other great new products to our cleaning and disinfecting lineup in the coming months.

We've also added 3 new products from our partner BK-Medent. We think these products will make a great addition to any porcelain bench.

BK Stain Palette
BK Honeycomb Trays + Pegs
BK Refractory Zirconia Pins

Head over to the Resources page to download or browse a digital version today.

With the addition of our new BK Honeycomb Trays and Pegs we can now offer a Total Porcelain Firing Solution for all types of restorations. Using our Fiber-Free Tray Liner, Insta-Peg Refractory Material and BK Honeycomb Trays you can fire any type of restoration safely and securely.

Our Fiber-Free Tray Liner has become a must have accessory that is used on all firing trays, for all firing cycles. It can be used with all firing pins, posts, pegs and you can even place restorations directly on the Fiber-Free without the fear of the porcelain sticking to the tray or the worry of getting fibers in the porcelain or metal. It ensures that even should your restoration tip, droop or otherwise touch the tray, you won't suffer catastrophic damage from the porcelain fusing to the tray.

Whether you are firing a veneer, several single units or a long span bridge you can easily customize our BK Honeycomb Trays & Pegs to suit your needs. The wire pegs can easily be bent or shaped to fit your specific case, and using thin wire pegs is the preferred method for all-ceramic cases. In addition to the wire pegs we offer a set that comes with 5 ceramic sleeves for stable firing of all types of PFM cases. These trays will outlast the competition due to their durable construction, including the use of highest quality ceramic material to produce the trays.



The last component to our Total Porcelain Firing Solution is our Insta-Peg Refractory Material. This product has numerous uses, but the two things it does extremely well is to create custom pegs and also to stabilize existing pegs. It can be used with or without pegs, and works great with veneers or other restorations that will not work with standard pegs. Insta-Peg does not require drying time, will not contaminate or distort the firing and is easily cleaned up.


Used together these products can help ensure that your porcelain firing process is a simple as possible, while ensuring predictable results.

Be sure to check out our new cleaning and disinfecting department for a look at our products geared around keeping your lab clean and your employees safe.

Multi-Purpose Orange Cleaning Wipes

• Perfect for cleaning up benches, equipment, chairs and even your hands
• Available in two different versions - a soft, single textured version and also a dual-textured version that has both a soft side and an abrasive side with special scrubbing fibers for cleaning stubborn residues without leaving scratches behind
• Cuts through all types of hard to clean contaminants

Graffiti Wipes

• Special solvent and non-scratching abrasive, scrubbing textured towel break down and clean up all types of chemicals that might otherwise be considered permanent
• Graffiti Wipes remove markers, die spacers, glues, inks and more can be removed from almost any hard surface
• Biodegradable, non-flammable and odorless
  

Earth Force Line

Eco-friendly chemicals that promote a safer workplace and cleaner environment. These products are formulated without hazardous solvents, inorganic phosphates or environmentally harmful surfactants. Instead they are manufactured using materials which exhibit more positive environmental and human health characteristics than conventional formulations. The Earth Force line includes our TerraClean Surface Wipes, QS Plus Hand Wipes and our Foaming Tea Tree Handwash.

Be sure to check out these new products and try them in your lab today.

It is the end of January, the high temperature for the day is going to be 15 degrees, and you just realized that you used the last bottle of expansion liquid for your casting investment. Plus, you are very busy and have case pans lined up as far as the eye can see, so you're going to need to be doing a lot of casting and pressing in the coming weeks. This is one predicament that can be easily avoided.

Every fall you should make sure they stock up on enough Z4 Expansion Liquid to get you through the entire winter. For different areas that can mean different time frames, but our warehouse is located in Ohio, so typically we stop shipping our N&V Expansion Liquid around the beginning of November. And usually we can't resume shipping liquid again until Late March or early April.

So if you are in an area with similar temperatures, or your supplier's warehouse is located in an area with similar temperatures, you'll need to stock up on enough Z4 Expansion Liquid to last at least 5 months, but it is better to use a 6 month figure.

Here is a good formula to calculate the proper amount of liquid to purchase:

Number of Cases Per Month
Multiply by 2 (bottles per case)
Multiply by 6 (months)

If you use an average of 3 boxes a month, it would go something like this.

3 (cases) X 2 (bottles per case) X 6 (months) = 36 bottles

- Note: Our case packaging contains 12 bottles, so that is often a good number to round up to. Also, it is a good ideas to store your liquid at room temperature and out of the light. A storage closet or in a box under the bench is perfect. This way the liquid can last several years without any problems.

Right now we are offering a "Buy 6, Get 1 Free" promotion on our N&V Expansion Liquid so you can save a few bucks and make sure you stock up. You want to make sure you are prepared with enough N&V Expansion Liquid to last you through the entire winter, and it is always better to have extra liquid rather than not enough.