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Want to duplicate a piece of plastic: any ideas?

flot

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Feb 24, 2000
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Hey guys -

I have a small, mostly flat, small piece of plastic I'd like to duplicate. Yes, I have one piece of plastic and I would like about 100.

I have this nagging feeling that sometime in my life I have seen some sort of do-it-yourself plastic mold kit where you take a cast of the plastic, then use little plastic beads which melt into the mold and voila - like a xerox machine but better. heheheh. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
 

pulpp

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May 14, 2001
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well what you said makes sense... sorry i cant be of any more help.
 

jjones

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yes, i know exactly what you mean. you need to buy some sort of do-it-yourself plastic mold kit where you take a cast of the plastic, then use little plastic beads which melt into the mold. ;)
 

Hoeboy

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Apr 20, 2000
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can't you just make a mold out of clay and then dry it? then melt a buncha barbie dolls or g.i. joes and cast the die!
 

toph99

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we used to have a plastic molder at schoo, just uses little plastic pellets. made crude designs, but they worked. stinked all to hell though