![]() – when sufficient thickness has been reached – at least 30-40mm, and wax is fully cooled, separate wax negative from pattern – Melt candlewax and paint onto outer surfaces of pattern object to gradually build up layers – Attach paper divider to form separation point of mould, lubricate lightly with vaseline? – 3D printed original pattern object (positive) or similar – could be hand made of wood etc. If we can effectively de-risk the testing of new products we can explore product ideas more quickly and find the winning ideas faster.Īlso another option I’m developing for detailed moulds: ![]() The hope is to use plastic mould inserts to quickly prove out mould ideas / products at lower cost before investing in metal moulds. I’m put feelers out to Lancaster University to see if we can get parts printed in High Temp resin on their Form 2 SLA which would be capable of withstanding PP moulding temperatures. We then tested inserts to modify the moulds printed from recycled PET but the printed part quality varies a lot and we weren’t able to pull a final product out of it. Our recent blog post on details that escapade which I’ll be uploading here …whenever I get the time! We’ve already been using acrylic inserts inside metal moulds which is a slight variation on what’s been done in the PP community for a while now. We already started testing this technique at Precious Plastic Lancaster . Anyone seen the white paper Form put out about this stuff? I saw the original modular mould post by thought it was the one I’d seen from Form > here
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