150 Urethane Resin Castings - How To Make A LOT of copies fast!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ค. 2024
- Do you want to pour a lot of urethane resin castings? In this video I mix resin to match a specific color, fill production molds and clean and finish the castings.
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Check out Crazy Al Evans on his website. www.tikimania.com
and his TH-cam Channel. / crazyalevans .
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Even if I wasn't intending to add custom silicone mold making for custom resin casting to my already unwieldy, time-consuming, and costly array of hobby interests I have no room for, I would watch Roberts' videos. He reminds me of the cantankerous yet kind retired guy who lived down the block when I was a kid; As long as I stayed off his lawn, listened more than I talked, and showed some common sense he'd let me watch, and occasionally even assist, as he worked on his garage-shop projects. I learned a vast amount from him, every youngster should be so lucky.
What an experience!
You're right more people should be able to get that
I've seen a dozen videos about casting, but you're the first person to break into all the little optimizations over the entire process, why you make them, and how they save you time over batches. Thanks for that!
Glad you found it helpful!
I don't exactly know what led me here, but you seem like a nice person with a lot of experience in what you do and it is a pleasure to watch you do what do :-) Greetings from Germany
Ha, same! Cooler typ, super natürlich in seiner Art
I think always is a pleasure to watch people doing what they do well/love. Greetings from Argentina @_@¬
This guy needs more views! I'm gonna try and share this channel to my Fine Arts University group.
Hi Elizabeth, I need all the views I can get! Thanks for spreading the word. Let me know what kind of projects you guys are working on at school; it helps me to know what to make videos about.
I've actually already graduated, but I've been interested in casting and mold making for years, but only had the most basic knowledge of what to do. I've been watching different mold making videos the last few days (in preparation for a kitchen reno), and one of your videos was in my recommended. I really hope that sharing your channel will get you more views. I'm definitely gonna be watching more of them. 😁
Most of what I'm doing is still in the planning phase, and I like to experiment to find the techniques and processes best for me (translated as "stubborn"). But if I come across something I can't wrap my head around, I definitely feel confident bringing it here to the expert. 👍🏻
I usually skip skip, forward-forward watch but this cool old man made me watch it whole!! I rarely subscribe too but he made me do it. I really love your vid and your very young butbwise personality. I learned a lot in your short video and it will really help me a lot on my planned productuon of my arts for extra income. I wish you all the best and stay healthy and hope live many more years of your youthful self! THANKS A LOT!!!
I've been on TH-cam for years and I have never once deliberately subscribed until now.
Welcome to the channel Bruce!
Thanks gramps, you’re a solid dude. Love your work. And thanks for the crash course!
Once again a Great Job! Learning something new each time!
Thanks, Albert!
Robert is a very patient and meticulous man. If we all aspire to be like him, the world would definitely benefit. If you learn nothing else from this video (and I'm betting, most of his videos), it's that preparation and keeping a clean functional workplace, are key! Awesome job. 👍
Love you, sir!!! Thankful for all the knowledge and wisdom you share here!!!
The Best content on TH-cam, every single video is just wonderful
Awesome video! Thanks for sharing the techniques.
Just discovered your channel while looking into silicone mold/resin castings. I currently use clay molds/casts when I need extra copies of figurines/accessories but your videos are really easy and simple to follow and have me considering switching to silicone mold/resin casting.
I loved the step by step process from making the silicone molds, to making multiple silicone molds for production copies, to cutting the molds, to casting the resin copies.....keep the great videos coming.
Thanks Robert! Always a pleasure following through your projects. Picking up a few quick wins here and there.
Glad you find them useful Alexander!
What a glorious channel this is I love this chap!
Love the videos you make, I'm learning so much! Thank you!
You have amazing skills, I have learned a lot today. Thanks!
Hey Robert, I think you’re my new favourite TH-camr. Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
Not sure how TH-cam knew I needed to watch this but I’m so glad I did, also the previous video in this little Tiki guys creation and his 150 siblings. Thank you Robert, you’re the kind of teacher that makes learning easy and enjoyable, I’m now a new subscriber.
Thanks for being here! Love your name by the way.
i don't exactly know what led me here but you seem like a nice person with a lot of experience in what you do and it is a pleasure to watch you do what do
Your videos are so straightforward with so many knowledgeable tips, great page!
Thanks for watching Evan!
Dear Robert, I just wanted to say I watched this video and it helped me immensely in making my own silicone mold. Thank-you for your tips and willingness to share. I couldn't be more grateful!
I ver happy it helped you! Thanks for letting me know!
I really appreciate your videos. I recently tried myself at making a chocolate Bear that i made by doing photogrammetry of a public statue and 3d peinting a miniture and molding from that. Molding can be so versatile, so many applications. Your videos really give me insight into how to do it professional. Keep doing these videos please. Thank you and greetings from Germany! :)
You are my FAVORITE CASTING AND CRAFT TH-camR! Amazing videos that have helped me SO MUCH! I've been 3D printing some prototypes that I'm trying to work up the nerve to cast, so I REALLY appretiate your teaching style! So chill and casual!!
How did you get on - have you made your casts?
Greate video, and greate tips in every second of the video. Thank you!!!
You’re the man. Love you!😊
This is so fascinating, I’ve been watching your videos for the past hour now! Thanks so much for sharing your process. Subscribed, and have a great day.
Love watching your stuff. I feel like resin artists and screen printers are cut from the same cloth. Especially with all the colour mixing work. Cheers 😊
this guy is on his game!!!!! so easy to understand. well spoken, quick firing info, a pro on camera......im truely impressed. i cant be sure but i think he may have studied with Bob Ross at the school for tele-hypnotism......I cant turn away
Great video. Reminded me of my Dad's workshop.
thanks for sharing. the jig to get rid of the base cupping is a great idea
Thanks Anton!
I just subscribed!
Awesome delivery.
Love how you explain difficulties and show how it’s possible to overcome them.
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Great stuff Robert! YOU MAKE TH-cam AWESOME!!!!
Anyone else flinch when he cut that first vent off? Just me?
You're amazing, I love watching you work
Thanks Mek!
Hi Robert, how are you? I'm from Brazil, I want to thank you for sharing so much experience. In a few minutes he summarized days or even months of research. Thank you, may God reward you, for all kindness. Health and Peace to you and all your family members.
The way you made the color was very impressive!! Hope I will be as good as you one day.
Robert you are truly awesome to watch and listen to, I am addicted.......I have never made a mould but you make me want to. You are like watching a loved father. So much knowledge, truly inspiring. Thank you for all your hard work, from UK :)
Thanks for your very nice comment Cheryl!
Its really great n helpful video for beginner, u really doing good job..
You make great videos Robert. Thanks for the education.
Thanks G!
Great, great stuff
Amazing Video! Thanks for Sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I like how you work . its my first time on your page. Yo got a instant fan here. Great work!!!
I learned about your channel from Crafsman a while back and I’ve really enjoyed your videos. Great videos, very interesting AND entertaining! 👍
Great job. Thank you sir
Thanks for the tips, I'll add them to my hobby
LOVE the video!
I've just come across your channel. Really enjoyed this. Off to watch more now. 👍👌
Totally enjoying these. You are a great teacher
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Your channel peaked my interest. I tought myself how to make rubber molds and plastic parts and create prototype. I learned a whole new different way of producing parts in plastics and metals. It cost more but you can produce thousands of parts a day and it's not plastic mold injections. I was done with that after I got a quote of $25,000 per mold. 3 size peaces comes to $75,000. No way jose. I had to learn new ways of making molds to save money to produce products. Thanks for bringing back old memories of producing rubber molds. Oh ya the more you work with latex rubber. The more your body is unable to protect you. The rubber will start to burns your skin. Always protect your skin and fingers. Just be careful. Thanks for sharing.
I'm new to your channel. I enjoy watching your process & your humor. Blessings always.
First time here, GREAT JOB, EXCELLENT INSTRUCTION! THANKS!
I appreciate your comment - thanks so much for watching!
Amazing! Learned a ton, thank u Robert! U are a brilliant man
Glad you enjoyed it Claude. Thanks!
Sir...you are a genius!! Learned quite a bit in this one 😎👍
So, so far from a genius but thanks Manny! I’m glad you find my videos useful.
I think I just found my new favorite channel
Love from Mexico!
10:25 OMG - You've answered a 30+ year unanswered question. I'd always see people weighing stuff like this when I was a kid. I never understood why they'd have to move the weights after they started. Now I do.
Just discovered your channel. Pretty glad about that.
Erik Duchamp Hey Erik, somehow I missed this comment from earlier. Thanks for watching!
Great videos :-)) must try, regards from Austria
Fantastic job and a great setup.
Thanks Richard!
Nice videos! Thanks
Subbed! Great fun to watch and learn 😊
Awesome tutorial! I want to do this now.
Go for it Patrick!
I love the way you test the witness cup.
Poke poke poke.
Your videos are great!
You've inspired me!
Thank you
Dingleberries!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
This is really educative. I now have a clue on how to go about my project, human skeleton. Thx Papa
Glad you found it helpful Omadi. Thanks for watching!
Thank you
i really don't know how i ended up here but just loved your work...respect and subscribed..
Glad you found the channel! Thanks for watching.
You're easy to watch Robert! I really appreciate the info as well.
I also am a fan of paper towel in the workshop. I'm cheap though. I prefer turning toilet paper into a center-feed dispenser. 1kg (1/4 Gal?) honey tubs with a 1 & 1/4" hole in the lid makes the holder and it's fairly simple to pull the cardboard out of the center of the roll by first folding it in on itself. You end up with little single use squares of paper that suit wiping up small drips. The paper stays fairly uncontaminated inside the plastic tub as well.
The for the really large shop rolls of paper towel that often come covered in plastic film, I just reinforce the plastic with packing tape and turn the whole thing into center feed dispensers as well.
Brilliant! I need make one of those now. I will keep my eyeballs peeled for the right size and shape of container.
thankyou for sharing !!!
thank you for the tips!! just subscribed
Thank you Robert, great videos, I used to mould with Heat resistant silicone and then lead figures, I will have a look through your vids to see if there is anything I can find for those, with 3d printing now my new hobby, it makes moulding a bit more for fun me
I have not yet done any low-temp metal casting projects on the channel. It’s on the list of video ideas.
Can feel the collective wince when he cuts off those 'sprues'
It had to be done.
love that scale!
I love my balance beam scales!
I got rid of most of my jewelry making stuff, but I saved a few favorite pieces. I'll see if I can figure out a potentially fun project for you to tackle. Love watching these!
It would be fun to do a project together!
Great lessons! So, the jig is very nice. Something I learned to make a flat bottom on a one piece mold pour is to slightly overfill. Then take a spare flat piece of silicone, like maybe from another mold. Simply slide it over the overfilled opening. When the resin sets, it'll be perfectly flat. There may be a few bubbles but the pressure pot usually takes those out. You have a pro operation but this may save you time cleaning resin shavings.
For me I have found machining the base to be faster and more reliable. But there are always several ways to skin a cat.
I love your videos mr Tolone! I immediately subscribed to your channel! Wish you were my dad so you could have thaught me all these techniques... while instead I am struggling to learn by myself watching super useful tutorials like yours... keep up the amazing work!
Thanks for watching! Feel free to ask any questions here in the comments. I’ll be happy to help out if I can.
Watching you put them in the jig and drill their heads was the most satisfying part. I cackled in glee when I saw that.
You gotta love a nice jig! Makes life so easy.
That's quite the sprue on that green jiggly man haha - big sprue energy
Yay great job
Thanks!
Legend
wonderful to watch such a wealth of casual casting knowledge! love the pressure pot setup, are they custom made the oval hole lids are absolutely genius!!
I didn’t invent the oval doors. Those are patterned off submarine doors.
@@RobertTolone wow that's terrific! I'm so used to seeing pressure pots with over the top wingnuts & lugs, which is a real problem for my dear lady who runs molds with me, this could be a real game changer!
subscribed baby !keep it up
like an expert eviration
Wish everyone stay safe. I do sculpture in Vietnam 🇻🇳 😍😍😍😍
inspiring stuff 👍👍👍🍻😋
10:58 you turned those little guys into eunuchs. cold blooded
Thank you for sharing you process. You are inspiring. Have you recorded any of your sculpting process?
Robert, you constantly say in a lot of your videos, that you like to work fast, or efficient, and being practical. I know you may love your scale but come on just buy an electric one 😄, you can find some very cheap and the work really well. By the way I love your channel! I'm learning a lot from you, thanks for your content!!! ❤
Oh I’ve had digital scales. I throw them in the garbage when they die. Meanwhile my 35-year-old balance beam scale (never repaired, NO BATTERIES EVER) just goes on and on and on. Plus, a balance beam is just as fast as any other scale - if you know how to use it.
Thank for watching my channel and for your comment! 👍😊
@@RobertTolone You are awesome!
i just "snuck up" on this channel. classic.
Glad you like it, thanks!
15:10 yeah you don't wanna let that thing harden up on ya
Robert! I work at a urethane and silicone casting shop, and I just gotta say: you are an absolute legend around here. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks so much Ezra! What do you guys make?
@@RobertTolone, we make prototypes and short production runs of everything from as-seen-on-tv kitchen gadgets to devices for fortune 500 companies. Thanks for asking. :)
@@ezrabartsch1505 I’m primarily a sculptor. I make character-based prototypes for the entertainment industry, mostly toys and consumer products. So Disney, Warner Bros, Nickelodeon, Sesame Street, Star Wars, etc. I convert my wax sculptures into resin castings to deliver them to the clients. I’m known on TH-cam as a mold maker because that’s the only videos everybody wanted to watch on my channel. So I specialized in that. I can’t imagine why I would be a legend in your shop because I could undoubtedly learn a lot from you guys!
@@RobertTolone, that level of humility's got a lot to do with it. You're the type of guy we'd all wanna hang out with, and you've got skills to boot! Next time you're in Minneapolis, MN, you'll have to let me buy you a drink. ;)
@@ezrabartsch1505 Thanks Ezra!
love it, you make me laugh and smile, i don't know anything about what you're videos are about, but it's interesting. Keep making these, brilliant job! :)
Still loving these videos.
I’m going to try a unique way of creating a mould for a project using a 3D printer and wondering your thoughts. My idea is to 3D print 2 ‘bucks’ with keys, one for each side of the part, then I can create the mould halves from each.
The main reason for crewing the two bucks rather than just a split mould is because the 3D printers leave a much better surface top side than bottom. The resin printers like I’m using are extremely accurate (about 0.025mm).
Is my idea brilliant, or am I kidding myself thinking this might work?
I know you like to experiment with different things, if you’ve access to a resin 3D printer, I’d love to see what results you’re able to achieve with 3D printed part moulding and casting.
Hi I'm a new subscriber. Was just looking around in youtube and come across you. I enjoyed watching so I'll be back. Hugs Ann in the UK
Hi Ann, Welcome to the channel!
Color me subscribed !
"A snort like that" 🤣 its a big'n
Great job! I've never seen such work being done before. You've got a new subscriber!
"Don't be shy! Come on out of there! Why I aughtta" xD
Robert, I just found your casting videos. I do 3d printing and designed a game. I thought about selling it but it takes too long to print all the parts and the board. So, it looks like making resin versions of the game is the way to go in order to make any profits. I'm gonna give it a try this weekend. Gotta make sure I print some good prototypes first before I make the molds.
Thanks for all your videos and wealth of info on mold making and castings.
I'm curious where you purchase your silicon and resins.
Thanks,
Gary
www.silpak.com
Looks to me like a good way to tell if you are close to the color is when you swish it around in your jug. The thinnest coating running down the sides inside the jug. The jug itself adds a little whiteness to it.
I’m mixing colored resin again this week. I’ll give your idea a try. Thanks!
I was about mention the same thing, curious to know if it worked?