Has anyone tried to melt and mold TPE?
Has anyone tried to melt and mold TPE?
So, has anyone actually tried to heat up TPE and pour it into a mold?
I would guess that even at a temperature where the TPE melted, it might be very viscous. Does anyone have any experience with this?
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http://www.artstuf.com/
Reasonably priced small quantities.
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Nice link, will keep that in mind when i need moreDollyman25442 wrote:I cast these in tpe yesterday using and old "Fry Daddy". Slowly gets you up to 350 degrees (outside) and makes for a perfect pour. This is a product called "Ultraflex, soft". It's a tpe made for this purpose from Douglas and Sturgess out of Ca. USA.
http://www.artstuf.com/
Reasonably priced small quantities.
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Unless you need to melt more than a quart, a Fry Baby is perfect and cheap. Any walmart.david 68 wrote: is there any portable melting machines that is for tpe ?
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https://www.reynoldsam.com/product/mold ... /#purchase
others include
www.bitymoldsupply.com
www.industrialpolymers.com
www.bjbenterprises.com
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To low - it doesn't melt
To high - it burns
and the good range is not that big.
Further, if you are using a large mold or a complex mold, you want to heat the mold so that the liquid TPE doesn't congeal to the sides and block the plastic flow.
So, you heat the mold to a little lower than your TPE melt, and then pour.
Then you let it slowly cool.
Things shrink as the cool.
And with rubber, it is not so bad because it flexes, but you want to have a reservoir that the shrinking areas can pull from.
Further, you may want to use vacuum to pull the resin into tight crevices.
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Is there anything that helps keep the oil in the tpe if I want to blend old and new tpe ?
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This one worked and has temperature control. https://www.target.com/p/presto-electri ... nk=sametabDollyman25442 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:54 pmUnless you need to melt more than a quart, a Fry Baby is perfect and cheap. Any walmart.david 68 wrote: is there any portable melting machines that is for tpe ?
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Sixhorses wrote: ↑Fri Jun 21, 2019 5:13 am Some formulations of TPE will melt at a little above the temperature of boiling water. So it is not difficult to melt TPE.
So, has anyone actually tried to heat up TPE and pour it into a mold?
I would guess that even at a temperature where the TPE melted, it might be very viscous. Does anyone have any experience with this?
For the OP, I'm quite new to this, but have doing a lot of working on melting and shaping TPE. It's real easy to do and, being an artist, I'm finding it quite enjoyable. It's like art except with more volatile tools in 3D. I've done some basic repairs already, but hope to go advanced quite soon.
At 120c it starts melting which is when the real work (and fun) begins, but beware, it can sometimes start smoking if it happens too fast.
Just make sure you prep and have the right tools.Watch vids on it.
Nice work. I'm looking into doing something a bit like that, but just making the labia etc.Siliconeman wrote: ↑Wed Sep 07, 2022 11:09 pm I use plaster mold for casting my add-on TPE labias
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