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April 26th, 2009

Creating molds with fast-cast urethane

Making a rigid mold with fast-cast urethane resins
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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August 16th, 2007

Tutorial videos on working with plastics

Tutorial on working with plastics
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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July 2nd, 2007

How to make a cheap and easy vacuum forming table

Home-built plastic vacuum forming table
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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June 30th, 2007

Home built heater for plastic folding

The results from using the home-built plastic bending heater
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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June 29th, 2007

Make your own plastic action figures

A home-made action figure created with Sculpey polymer clay
How to make your own custom action figures using Sculpey III polymer clay.
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June 23rd, 2007

Make custom tools with Friendly Plastic / Shapelock

How to make custom tools with Friendly Plastic
Here’s a good how-to showing how you can use the low temperature plastics called Shapelock or Friendly Plastic to make custom tools.
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