CASTING WITH PRESSURE

Just wondering, Anyone who has experience with pressure casting how effective it is?

Well to partially answer your queston about the effectiveness, LEGOs are pressure cast, how effective are they?

I was chatting with another mini-figure maker and they use pressure casting but I don't remember who it was but their mini-figures were great. Almost store quality.

Opposed to Wuzzabob's? What about the Fineclonier? Anyone know what he uses?

That's most likely where I was chatting but I don't remember.

I cast with pressure and to use a familar voice.

MMCB wrote:

Hey James,
Just got your helmets today
They are absolutely perfect!! Seriously. The finish of these items is exceptional.

I started casting without pressure and had a useable cast ratio of probably 1 useable to 2 trys. That is alot of wasted product. Now with pressure it is more like 9 useable to 10 trys. While my set-up is somewhat unsafe I would recommend pressure casting. As I said however my set-up should not be attempted so I feel a certain amount of responsibility in not sharing. I don't mind blowing myself up but I would feel bad if someone else did it.

dino wrote: I don't mind blowing myself up but I would feel bad if someone else did it.

Getting blown up is never a good thing. I have a Hot Wheels Car molding set that was released a few years back, it does pretty good casts, and you can remove the inner rubber of the mold, so I was toying with the idea of making more rubber mold inserts for Minifig accesorys, I wonder how good it would work?

How do you cast with pressure anyways? What other equipment do you need?



If anyone reads this, when I start casting if I ever do, I might sell my ineffective casts for 50% or lower. IE Battle Damaged helmets!