[Jewelry making - Article 00055] - Re: [Orchid] Casting rubber and plastics

[Ian W. Wright]

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Hi Altana,

Welcome to Orchid...

    One kind of plastic you may like to play with is the low temperature
    melting plastic known by a number of names - morphplast,
    plastimorph, Jett set?, Here are a couple of web pages about it

    http://tinyurl.com/2s3bf6
    http://tinyurl.com/2tv6vu
    http://tinyurl.com/3a6t5c

    (sorry the links are all UK but I'm certain the came stuff is
    available in the US) 

    It normally comes as clear plastic granules which soften in hot
    water so that you can mould it by hand or press it into moulds. It
    hardens to a translucent white colour somewhat like nylon and is
    very tough ( I use it for the drive nuts on my CNC milling
    machine!), however, it can be coloured by kneading dry colours into
    it while it is soft. It can also be softened with a hot air gun (
    like for paint stripping etc.) and can be textured/moved around with
    hot metal tools (screwdriver blade?). 

    I'm sure you would find it interesting to work with for jewellery
    projects but it also has 1001 other uses - I even found one company
    on the web who are using it to manufacture biodegradable golf
    tees..... 

HTH

Best wishes,
Ian
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield UK
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