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This solves several problems with hobby casting of plaster in 3D-printed shell molds: Plaster leakage, mold reuse and ease of assembly and disassembly. This assembly is the bottom half of a 3D printed 0.8mm wall thickness PLA mold having flanges for clamping. Plaster exerts a lot of pressure, especially in deep molds, even super gluing a disk onto a bottom flange can fail and result in a plaster spill. This is a "belt and suspenders" solution. This disk is thick and strong and paper clamps hold it onto a flange on the sidewall of the mold pieces. These recesses enable placing it flat onto a level table.
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Mold Shell Flange
Learning to create flanges in CAD design enables a new kind of DIY mold-making for ceramics: 3D-printed lightweight reusable molds that clamp together. |
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