Using Bits of Left Over Molding Rubber to Volumize New Molds
Anyone who’s ever done any molding and casting knows how expensive molding rubber is and how aggravating it can be to be pouring a mold and come up short with your mold mix.
In this Robert Tolene video, he offers a tip I hadn’t heard of before for saving on molding materials. He calls it “dunkin’ chunkies” — cutting old molds pieces into small chunks and adding them into a new mold pour (in the voids where they won’t interfere with the object being molded).
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