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Yes - thanks - but actually thinking about it I think he mentioned a technical difficulty - pulling thicker tougher rubber off the form. The whole sculpture has to be extracted through the diameter of the neck rubber stretched. So this is why it can't be very much thicker than it is.

Best wishes

Harem

Older dolls like "Letha weapons" had a thicker skin and where very durable. I really think Domax could make a quality doll with a thicker skin. Now i'm not an expert, but take a look at some user's posts who managed to make a really sturdier doll, or even copy existing dolls by adding more latex... I think there's a way to produce some latex quality doll, more expensive than Domax's but less than the TPE one's.

I find this post very interesting. I am commenting purely so I can find it with ease, if I need to. Thankyou for your time gentle men

One week since i asked "poupée deluxe" for improprements or new ideas. No answer. Now i'm going to order a fine TPE girl. The french "poupée" is an amazing doll (i'm still loving my "frankendoll"), but without customer support. In my opinion, the manufacturer goal is only to make more money with bad quality dolls, and then only resell cheap bad quality TPE dolls. Despite they have the potential to make the most perfect inflatable latex girl, just by making some new (concrete !) molds and by adding just some more layers of latex to make their ladies sturdier (this is possible by pouring some more latex on unmolded ones... A forum member did it already). This is my final post on latex forum. My next girlfriend will be a TPE one as i'm getting too old and too ugly to get the interest of any real girl, and because every real girl i've met only made my life a hell... With plastic love, Superglue.

Latex dolls can be made with a slush mold of plaster, but you would need a hoist to lift the mold to pour of latex after set time, about 30 min. to and hour, the longer the set time the thicker the latex. The head for letha was the slush mold process(pin holes in mouth), the bodies were the glove mold process. The reason for the glove for the body was it dried faster and less pin holes in the latex and a glove mold would weight a ton.

Wasn't the Letha doll made from 2 separate halves and then cemented together at the waist line? I think thats why they could use thicker latex to make her. Also a Hydroglove latex drysuit consists of a separate upper and lower half those are made on different moulds.

Salut,
Non, ces poupées sont réalisées sans soudure. Seule la liaison avec la tête existe au niveau du coup. Ci-dessous une photo de ce type de poupée. Pourtant, il arrivait à l’extraire du moule. Il serait interressant de connaître la procédure de fabrication.

Hello,
No, these dolls are made without welding. Only the connection with the head exists at the level of the blow. Below is a picture of this type of doll. Yet he could pull it out of the mold. It would be interesting to know the manufacturing process.

I would be interested but cant read the website

maverick14 wrote:I would be interested but cant read the website

Google Chrome will translate it for you Maverick14. Those are beautiful dolls indeed, and as far as I know, one of the few manufacturers even making latex inflatables anymore.

I have just received one, inflated it and I must say I'm disappointed. the latex is all with lumps and bubbles, very carelessly painted on finger and toenails and nowhere else, very shabby execution, squeezed the doll and heard air coming out too. put it back in the plastic bucket it came in and contemplate asking for a refund. Do NOT recommend!

When people buy through me I always check the doll for imperfections specifically around the functional areas. Domax do say that air bubbles in the latex are to be expected and to fill any which develop into holes with superglue

Best wishes

Harem

Still if someone in the UK wants a brand new blonde poupee please pm me. I dont want it. will throw in lacey v-halter/bodysuit I bought for her

AlexTlen wrote:Still if someone in the UK wants a brand new blonde poupee please pm me. I dont want it. will throw in lacey v-halter/bodysuit I bought for her

I might AlexTlen - but I can't seem to PM you (just set up a new account perhaps?) if you can PM me then please do.

haremlover wrote:When people buy through me I always check the doll for imperfections specifically around the functional areas. Domax do say that air bubbles in the latex are to be expected and to fill any which develop into holes with superglue

Do not use superglue on latex - it will make it brittle (hence overstretch stretched spots) and eventually cause it to burst. Only in latex-to-solid bonds (e.g. hard plastic valve) it might be used, but even the acid vapours of it may cause latex to decompose into brown mush over time. (I am not entirely sure about this, but my modded Stretch Armstrong with superglued head entirely unvulcanized itself into a sticky mess like bubblegum.)

Use Copydex non-toxic rubber cement or even bodypainting latex to reinforce bubbles. Prepare glue surfaces with isopropanol. When used on a patch, apply glue on both sides and let it dry until it turns transparent before pressing it together.