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3D Printing Sex Toys
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#12I have questions. If you're doing it all yourself why do you need to go to a silicone shop and "talk to the experts about your needs"? Why tell a beginner to use 3D Builder or Meshmixer when you could do it in ninety seconds in Tinkercad? Why would you slice it in Chitubox to get the volume when your original modeling program or regular slicer would give you that info? On what printer is 0.25mm a step-integer layer height? Finally, is this really any better than printing your dildo and using a $35 clone-a-willy kit?
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#13> So traditionally you'd have to print a blank and smooth it (with loads of manual sanding and buffing), and then cast a silicone mould around it, add a mold release ($$$) and THEN (finally!) cast your actual sex toy. The process is here to print the negative and then do a thin layer of beeswax inside to smooth the layer lines from the print. I haven’t done either method but would like to try it out soon. I’ll probab…
Or, depending on the polymer, smoothing can be done chemically.
This is simple, cheap and clean by comparison. I have the same inclination to try it too. I think it's brilliant.
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#14> So traditionally you'd have to print a blank and smooth it (with loads of manual sanding and buffing), and then cast a silicone mould around it, add a mold release ($$$) and THEN (finally!) cast your actual sex toy. The process is here to print the negative and then do a thin layer of beeswax inside to smooth the layer lines from the print. I haven’t done either method but would like to try it out soon. I’ll probab…
She mentions that it loses a fair bit of surface details, so good for largish organic things, but maybe not so good for miniatures?
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#15Her name is Billie Ruben, interesting choice.
She explained it many times.[0]
[0] https://twitter.com/search?f=live&q=from%3ABillieRubenMake+B...
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#16https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sex&type=things&sort=re... >No results found for sex. Please try another search or upload your own design. Yeah, sure!
Good point, they also filter similar words like buttplug and dildo. Sad, a niche market within a niche market. Their loss.
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#18The core of this technique is the use of beeswax to act as both a filler/smoothing agent and mould release. A clever hack - but I'm confused by some things:
- the assertion that 3d printed materials are not body safe; PLA (the most common 3d printing material) is nontoxic and used for utensils (although agreed that the layer lines are a hygiene hazard)
- the description of the "traditional" method as printing a positive shape, then casting a negative in silicone, and then casting a positive also in silicone (with release agent, presumably because silicone bonds to itself). Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth?
- Why is release agent "$$$"? There are a variety of extremely cheap household items that work as release agent, notably dish soap.
- Pouring 100C beeswax into a print. This is well above the glass point of PLA. She doesn't say what material she's printing with, which may explain the earlier remark about not being body safe.
- The need for any sort of release agent. Silicone does not bond to thermoplastic, at all. She's not casting silicone in silicone, so what's the problem?
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#19I have questions. If you're doing it all yourself why do you need to go to a silicone shop and "talk to the experts about your needs"? Why tell a beginner to use 3D Builder or Meshmixer when you could do it in ninety seconds in Tinkercad? Why would you slice it in Chitubox to get the volume when your original modeling program or regular slicer would give you that info? On what printer is 0.25mm a step-integer layer h…
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#20https://www.thingiverse.com/search?q=sex&type=things&sort=re... >No results found for sex. Please try another search or upload your own design. Yeah, sure!
Good point, they also filter similar words like buttplug and dildo. Sad, a niche market within a niche market. Their loss.
Can't edit on mobile. Looks like they don't Filter "sextoy" but other obvious words.