{"id":39,"date":"2004-05-02T17:29:33","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T17:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2015-07-11T13:08:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T02:08:51","slug":"liquid-rubber-and-other-moulding-and-casting-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2004\/05\/02\/liquid-rubber-and-other-moulding-and-casting-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Liquid rubber and other moulding and casting resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come across some interesting sites to do with making in the last few days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smooth-on.com\">Smooth-On<\/a>: These people produce liquid rubbers and plastics for artists and industry: silicone rubbers, urethane rubbers, liquid plastics, foams and so on. They offer detailed product and technical information, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smooth-on.com\/howto.htm\">How to<\/a> step-by-step turorials on various ways of moulding and casting look great.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowetrading.com.au\/\">Rowe Trading Company<\/a>: The Australian distributers for Smooth-On, based in Adelaide. I notice that Rowe are also distributers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bondmaster.com\/\">Bondmaster<\/a> adhesives. Most of us who make foam puppets are used to using Gel Grip, or a similar type of contact glue to join foam pieces. Its smelly, you have to take care with the fumes, and it takes a few minutes to go tacky before you can press the two surfaces together. Bondmaster produces a much friendlier two-part glue which consists of a pinkish dab-on liquid, and a spray-on catalyst. It bonds foam immediately, has no smell to speak of, and is easier to get into deep places, and onto fabric. In a few circumstances though, say when seams are under pressure, I still opt to use Gel Grip. And the last I heard, Bondmaster is hard to buy except in industrial quantities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnes.com.au\/\">Barnes Products<\/a>: I&#8217;ve heard good things about this Sydney moulding and casting supplier. Their catalogue is online, and they have a range of videos and books on moulding and casting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/activaproducts.com\/collections\/li-qua-che\/products\/128oz-of-li-qua-che\">Activa products<\/a>: Activa make an interesting air-dry casting compound called LI-QUA-CH\u00c9, which is a recycled paper fibre polymer based compound. Its looks like clay slip, and dries to a hard durable glossy satin finish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve come across some interesting sites to do with making in the last few days. Smooth-On: These people produce liquid rubbers and plastics for artists and industry: silicone rubbers, urethane rubbers, liquid plastics, foams and so on. They offer detailed product and technical information, and their How to step-by-step turorials on various ways of moulding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,107,33],"tags":[108,1385,109],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-make","category-materials","category-theatre","tag-casting","tag-materials","tag-moulding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3089,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/3089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}