| Title: | Home_work |
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| Created: | Tue Nov 05 1991 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
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I have a can of Plasti-Dip. This is the liquid plastic stuff that one
would normally use to put a plastic coating on the handles of hand
tools. (It works quite well for that purpose, by the way).
I would like to make some plastic caps with the stuff. In other words,
I want to coat a cylindrical form with the plastic and let it dry.
Then remove the plastic from the form and use it as a cap on another
item. I did this years ago in shop class in Jr. High school, but can't
for the life of me remember what I did to allow removing the dry
plastic easily from the form. I doubt if I could use a coating of
Vaseline, for instance, since the plastic may not adhere to Vaseline at
all thereby preventing the formation of the plastic coating.
Any ideas??
Randy
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| 920.1 | use kitchen wrap | CIMNET::LUNGER | Dave Lunger, 291-7797, MET-1/K2 | Fri Jan 05 1990 08:35 | 6 |
you could cover the form with some sort of kitchen wrap to separate the plastic from the form then peel the wrap from the hardened plastic. i'm not sure what would work best... you could try saran wrap, wax paper, or even silver foil. If its not a problem for the cap you have in mind, perhaps the wrap could just be trimmed from the edge. | |||||
| 920.2 | Easy | EUCLID::PETERSON | Panama has no Second Amendment | Fri Jan 05 1990 10:59 | 9 |
Spray Silicon.
If you use Vaseline, you may end up with a pattern-weaknesses.
CP
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