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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/ Reaso...

Love to get together and drink a few beers with you, and i remember the little Honda 50, and the CT70, i also had a CL305 in the 70's. BTW love your suggestions on the molding build

Good work, you have advanced a lot sense you started

Had a CB350 hardtail back in 75-76, rode all over Calif, sold it and got a pre unit Triumph chopper, miss that 650. But my fav was a 2001 1200 Sportster i got in 05, but hard times in 08 had to let it go, about my first mold, still had air bubbles, and still some imperfections in the mold, as i figu...

Harley makes a good trike, but expensive, but anyway, now heating up the TPE, and will see how this is gonna work. I had a 1200 Honda Aspencade that i had to let go for the same reasons, and now building a Suzuki 650 Savage thumper, low to the ground, a whole lot lighter, and a whole lotta torque

I have 1/8th inch rods that index trough the eyes and both the face and inside mold to index in alignment. The eye's and the mouth bridge hold the thickness sense both molds make contact in those areas, voiding those areas of TPE, so little trimming needed in the post mold process. Hope that explain...

I will setup the master mold on a cookie sheet to catch the spill over TPE, and also, like i read in this tread, to pre heat both molds to approx 150F to make the forming go smooth. I fractured the face mold in 3 parts (like the connecting rod big end on a 4.6/5.4 Ford) fracture fit, and hold togeth...

At least with TPE, it's easy to correct fails, can be remelted, rinse and repeat, unlike plat cure silicon

Thanks guys for the ideas, i have a face mask neg mold and a face interior insert that drops in the face mold with alignment rods quickly after the TPE is poured, so the eye lids and mouth thickness is consistent, as the lip interior. Thinking that i brush on liquid latex on the mold insert to seal ...

Can anybody give me a suggestion of a good release agent for molding TPE in a Plaster of Paris mold

Probably best to melt and pour into a shallow mold to get clean bits to work with. TPE retains heat really well and will fuse back together before you can pull it away. Maybe if you chilled it prior? I finally got all my materials and tools in. Going to try my hand at a custom insert first, then mo...

I'm pretty sure I know that order. Scheduled a pickup for tomorrow. You got the last of that color TPE I had as samples, but I got a new stock order today with a couple of kilograms of more samples and other things. Going to take some time to add it all to my store. I may also be interested in some...

Look at my thread on Getting a head WM movable jaw mod, and installing electronics that rotate the eyeballs. I have modded a WM TPE head, Climax dolls head #1, mounted the eyes with RC truck axles, and using servos. here is a link
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neutrino wrote:Wow! You've built the world's first bukkake robot!

She get cream pied LOL

Soo true, i only mold TPE for smaller doll parts up to the face mask, i would never make a body with it. I made a body with a PVC skeleton, foam rubber, pant hoses, and silicon. A lot lighter and repairable