Lost PLA Casting: Preparing a Print of Jon Snow from Game of Thrones for Casting in Aluminum

You got me thinking and I was wondering if they made wax 3d printer filament and sure enough they do. hers is the site.

https://www.matterhackers.com/store/3d-printer-filament/moldlay-filament-1.75mm?rcode=GAT9HR&gclid=CjwKCAjw6ZLOBRALEiwAxzyCW3ItRXKCEOWa96bPDHIRxg9bI_Vl1PuIp67vxPSeT2Nu5WC_5zRErhoCizYQAvD_BwE

This is crazy. I had this very idea last month around the time you posted this video…using pla and burning it out to make aluminum castings. Great minds think alike (and apparently, mediocre minds do, too 😛 ) jk

UH ITS SO TEMPTING TO SEARCH THAT UP!!! NGGHHH!!! IM SEARCHING IT!!!

if you heat the wax you could dip your model into the wax.

I guess using her toothbrush for cleaning parts is one way to get your daughter to stop coloring on the fun plastic toys that you are going to burn instead of let her have. My two year old likes to sneak into the computer room and help himself to my failed prints on my desk then sleep with them. It's a bit weird finding a pile of little, half printed stormtrooper helmets and debris under his pillow like he's some kind of giant, crazy ewok (giant compared to the helmets; he's a relatively normal ewok size in reality).

Almost as weird as how I kept smelling the coconut oil as you were waterproofing the model. To the point where I had to pause for a moment to see if I was having some sort of strange and less unpleasant smelling stroke symptom.

The only support related overhang luck I've had has been with touching supports. Any drop is bad, but a 0.05mm drop is almost fine. The problem is a gap that thin is practically solid and anything delicate is hard to keep safe. So either it has to touch and then you have to deal with cleaning that up – not my favorite, because if I were that artistic I wouldn't need a computer and fancy math to make my art for me – or soluble support, but then you need a second extruder and so on. In this case you might be better off chopping his head off around his nose, the printing the top and bottom from the middle and gluing it back together to get a no support model. Or do what I would do, and let the fur and hair hide the support sins and pretend it's supposed to look like that.

hey, I was trying to send you a message on AA but your inbox is full again. I have the link to the new forum.

he says spare toothbrush but he didnt say ask his wife to verify it wasnt hers

YEAH! New vid…….WaitWHAT!?!???! To be continued ending. Noooooooooooo. Mental breakdown. Aaargh.

Nice 3D print resolution.

Spray some wd40 or silicone spray on it, that will stop the water!

I dont trust you sir….this question that im going to ask gave me a bunch of sleepless nights….is your name really Paul?

lol, looks good so far. If you experience little BBs on the outside of the casting when you pour it, it's because of air bubbles that get trapped on it. A little tip is to take a paintbrush and paint some of the PoP on the part first before you shove it into the plaster, then it wont get those little air bubbles trapped to the outside of the part.

I'm wondering if you could make a shaft for the air to escape by embedding a plastic tube or rod after you put the 3d print into the plaster. Or possibly carefully drilling a shaft after it dries.

I can't wait to hear the story about how you bumped into that stick hanging over the edge of your bench, resulting in the 30-40 dollar "weight" falling and breaking. Maybe falling on your toes? Then as it was falling you tried to catch it but knocked over the plaster of Paris mix all over you and the floor and your crucible. Actually that would not be funny, but I bet if you don't do it I will.

Also, how hard was it to set up that 3d printer? I had robotics in college but that was a long time ago, so I have been apprehensive about getting one. I also don't know the software you need to make your own stuff. Is there an open source library that you know of?

Anywho great video and keep up the great work.

Great video Paul, one day i will buy a 3D printer, could be fun for my casting on my channel!!!!!

Looking forward to the final result.

Is it just me or does the mushroom cloud at the end of your videos look like a clown?

Have you considered freestyle rapping after that intro???

The PLA will be lost, but the North remembers! It is known.

Waiting!…. Waiting …………. Waiting…………… WAITING…………….. .. .. .. . . . What time did you say you going to pour?. Waiting. . . . lol

I'm on septic system and when I first bought the house I had to hire someone to do work on my septic system, I had not learned it yet, and the service guy said "always use your wife's toothbrush to clean the pump filter".
I don't think I would kiss her after that.

Aha, I see what you did there. You made the print out of aluminum-colored plastic so you could make the thumbnail look like you had gotten a successful cast. Clever girl.

Did you do shaking or whatever to try to get the bubbles out of the liquid plaster after cutting the camera?

Opportunity missed. "I didn't use my own toothbrush, that would be gross. I used my wife's".

Youtube didn't notify me your video was out. But I went looking and found it.

Ohhhh, a cliffhanger! You SUCK! Seriously, though, don't keep us waiting too long . . .

Gaaah! All this game of thrones stuff… If ol' snow there survives the fire, does that confirm his targaryen heritage? Also, I'm still waiting for a bronze cast hand – i shall wait years if needs be…

Gaul's Parage

We'll see how it goes.

Fallyovery😂🤣

Haha, all I can think is, "He puts the wax on or he gets the hose again!"

I WANT ONE OF THOSE DOOR STOPS! I have no use for a door stop like that. BUT I STILL WANT ONE!!! Keep being AWESOME! Define Your Legacy!

Plastowhat Burns?