Posts Tagged ‘polyurethane’
Making of a (plastic) goat
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
The project: to make multiple copies of the goat to attach to keychains. The question is, how does one do this? After inquiring around the UK about producing them from a 3-d model, smaller companies said they couldn’t do it. The other option was to get it produced in China. Minimum runs are at least 1000, and I wasn’t sure if I *REALLY* wanted 1000 plastic goats (now I think I do, but when I started all this, I was nervous about the number). So I started looking into making my own silicon mold, filled with poly-eurathane (plastic).
This post will go through my entire process of making a two sided mould, and detail all the stuff I learned, and show you my (limited) successes!
