{"id":2541,"date":"2010-05-24T19:09:25","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T03:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sc-fa.com\/blog\/?p=425"},"modified":"2023-11-21T23:40:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T23:40:00","slug":"blacktoe-cnc-usage-silicone-casting-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/blacktoe-cnc-usage-silicone-casting-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"blacktoe cnc usage: silicone casting mold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>alrighty, then.. so I\u2019m starting to get my bearings with how all the software works to run jobs through the blacktoe CNC router. I switched from cambam over to sheetcam and now I\u2019m getting really good results. There\u2019s still a certain amount of strangeness, probably all my fault, so I\u2019m still learning what works and what doesn\u2019t. Here\u2019s a video I did to show how the blacktoe does with machinable wax:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"beatseqr - cutting a silicone keypad casting mold from machinable wax\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/diode.zone\/videos\/embed\/19ec3ae3-56ef-4c47-9874-af8c67bd32d8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The end result is a mold to use for casting translucent silicone into for use in my <a href=\"http:\/\/beatseqr.com\">beatseqr<\/a> project, as a replacement for the hand-cut-and-sanded acrylic buttons that I\u2019m currently using. You never know how an experiment will really go until it\u2019s over, and now that this experiment is over, I\u2019ve learned a lot and will make a bunch of adjustments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1. change the silicone product from tap plastics platinum cure translucent (way too wobbly for this application) to smooth-on sorta clear 40. I saw this product at the Maker Faire this past weekend and really liked the firm quality of the cured product. I think it will be a really good candidate. Smooth-on dragon skin 30 was my second-best candidate.<br>2. cut a new button mold using the techniques I\u2019ve learned by doing this one.<br>3. adjust the height of the button to be not as tall as this test.<br>4. adjust the flashing surrounding the buttons to be not nearly as tall. I had it set to be 0.1\u2033 tall, and that\u2019s probably 0.08\u2033 too much. all I need is for it to basically be thick enough to keep all of the buttons together, and that\u2019s it.<br>5. think about how to diffuse the LED light going into the button\u2026 this new silicone is water-clear\u2026 so \u2026 I\u2019ll need a way to adjust that quality so it looks good. maybe just a sheet of paper under the silicone flashing\u2026 we\u2019ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So\u2026 progress continues. I\u2019ll post the result of the next prototype when it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>alrighty, then.. so I&#8217;m starting to get my bearings with how all the software works to run jobs through the blacktoe CNC router. I switched from cambam over to sheetcam and now I&#8217;m getting really good results. There&#8217;s still a certain amount of strangeness, probably all my fault, so I&#8217;m still learning what works and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","iawp_total_views":1,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6,2,7,8,9,10,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacktoe","category-casting","category-cnc","category-diy","category-general","category-industrial-design","category-machinable-wax","category-project","category-sculpture","category-silicone","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4830,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/4830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sc-fa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}