This video shows how easy it is to create durable, highly detailed molds with today’s modern urethane plastics. With these molds you can cast parts using more urethane or other plastics to create many duplicate items.
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Check-out this fairly recent book that covers the myriad of ways that plastics have been incorporated into various products and even the culture of our society.
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This goes well beyond the average hobbiest, but if you’re someone who regularly needs to bend and form things like PVC pipe, you know you need a large heat source. This HotBend hand-held propane heater will get the job done!
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This new plastic technology made with inkjet style printing will allow devices to communicate with lower power than today’s wireless signals.
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With the approach of Halloween, many people will be interested in making some custom costumes, masks, or props and plastics are the perfect solution. Here’s some info on using liquid silicone rubber to make scary masks!
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Here’s a ton of videos that show you how make various molds, bend plastics, glue plastics, polish plastics, and much, much more!
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Using a resin and woven threads of glass, also known as fiberglassing, is a very useful and relatively easy way to build larger structures. Fiberglassing is used when making boat hulls, water slides, and many other everyday items.
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Here’s a cheap and easy to build vacuum forming table that you can easily put-away when you’re not using it!
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Here is a home-built heating strip that allowed the creation of bent acrylic panels for a custom panel in a computer.
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How to make your own custom action figures using Sculpey III polymer clay.
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