3D Printing Silicone Squishy Toys

I know these are "meant" for FDM - but for anyone out there attempting to print in resin - make note that most resins have sulfur which can introduce cure inhibition with platinum based silicones. Either use a tin-cure silicone with no worries OR coat your resin print in some sort of varnish. There are also certain resins available in which you don't need to take extra care with but do need to follow the manufacturer's guide for curing correctly in order to prevent this issue when used with platinum silicone.

Also, I’d suggest against “eyeball” mixing. That’s probably why some of them are tacky. And your Uncle Jessy logo can be cleaned with Naptha. That’s the solvent you use to clean up silicone. 😊

This would be great to create a "Flash Light" mold

Mixing the correct ratio of the 2 parts is pretty important and you didn't look to be actually measuring any of these accurately. Likely the reason why some of them didnt fully cure.

Remember silicone sticks to silicone so when pouring silicone into a silicone mold you'll want to apply a layer of mold release before hand

my mom: son why do you have all that beige colored silicone? me: the less you know the better mom.

Uncured silicone (and epoxy resin!) actually can clean out of molds pretty well with simple Clorox wipes, no need to toss those molds. I also recommend trying out Dragon Skin 10 for silicone. It's less fussy, you can eyeball it reliably, and it's remarkably stretchy in addition to being soft. I like using the 20 version for dice molds.

If I recall correctly Cura has a mold box function. Would be interesting to see them compared.

FYI Smooth-On is a top tier producer of silicones for mold pours. They have good pricing and love helping out the crafting community. They have tons of Hollywood customers and a great reputation in the special effects industry.

Pretty sure The Crafsman would have some answers and advice for ya on a lot of this. He did a series experimenting with similar ideas. That would be a great collaboration 😀

I have been looking into doing this for the dice set my daughter created. Think I'll finally get around to do it after watching this! Thanks for the great video as always UJ!

I have never worked with the products you've shown but typical caulking silicone cleans up really well with methyl hydrate. Thanks Jessy.

This is cool! I’ve been following and watching you for a couple years now. It’s crazy because I bought silicone stuff end of last year to play with this, but I got a resin printer and still learning that lol

Happy printing! 👍🏾

Building a pressure chamber from a paint tank is awesome for getting rid of bubbles and it's not too expensive. There's a guy on here wearing a backwards hat that has as tutorial on how to convert it, it's easy and I use mine all the time.

Dude. This is so spot on to the project ive been working on. Mindblowing that we both had the same idea with the elmers

Dude this is so dope

3d printed plastics often cause problems with platinum cure silicone. Giving it a dunk in some inhibit-x should help. I usually coat my prints in wax when I want to take a mold of them.

I love the idea of printing a mold then casting it in various methods. One thing I want to try out is creating my own head for making hats. My idea atm is scan my head, create a 3D printed mold of it, either put a crap ton of mold release or just use plastic, then putting great stuff (expanding foam) on the inside. I've heard if you sprits it with water, there will be less bubbles. This could also be a cool test in your studio to display all of the helmets. As for the silicone, as someone else mentioned, silicone is piiicky when it comes to measuring. Eyeballing can be very difficult to get right. Some are volume based and some are weight based. Others are also 1:1, 1:2, or 1:3 ratios. At the hardware store, you can get measuring buckets but they're really large for what you're doing. I got a little 100ml cup on amazon to measure resin

You just have to get the dragon skin silicon, just be careful when looking it up