[Do As I Do] had a simple task to complete. A couple of small parts needed to be duplicated in some quantity, with good dimensional accuracy and surface finish. There are a number of ways you might go about this, particularly if you have the original tooling or a machine shop on hand. In this case, however, the plan was to duplicate the parts with silicone molds.
The first step, naturally, was to produce the silicone molds. Doing this involved some craft supplies, with glossy paper and hot glue used to create a vessel for casting silicone around the original parts. The silicone itself was mixed carefully and poured into the vessels, and soon enough [Do As I Do] had a pair of negative molds that could be used to produce duplicates of the original. The original parts were removed, and the silicone molds were filled with resin over and over again to make as many duplicates as were needed.
This was a simple enough project with straightforward geometry that suited the process. More challenging parts would require more care in mold prep and more advanced techniques. Depending on material choice for the duplicate parts and other factors like intended final application, extra steps like degassing may be necessary, too. Still, for a quick guide on duplicating a simple plastic part, it’s hard to beat.
We’ve featured other silicone mold jobs before, like these impressive recreated tail light lenses. Video after the break.
I was tricked by the AI thumbnail to watch the video. But the mass production didn’t happen. Looking at it closer, you could say that the left part is larger than the other parts, and that the right are all different shapes and sizes.
Yeah, this sucks. Everything’s fake now.
The thumbnail does appear to be AI photoshopped. But aren’t thumbnails always exaggerated click bait?
The video itself seems kosher, and full of neat practical tips that are at least shown, but not narrated. And he makes like 5 of the parts, some in different colors, etc.
Clickbait = Instante thumb down.
People need to stop doing it.
You do you. This video is pretty good if you’d like to get into silicone molding.
The brute force on reality is accelerating, and it terrifies me. In one day I encountered a dozen pieces of slop in the real world, and was tricked three times online. I don’t want to have to filter what is and isn’t real. Nor do I have the energy to do so at the moment. This reminded me of the Agapornis ‘lovebirds’ and Cockatail. While these were frequently kept together, the Cockatail won’t have a great life, nor a long one.
I’m happy for the people who can, and to the people who barely notice, but it should not be the standard. Let the neurodiverse users be the canary in the coal mines, and try to do better for everyone.
Everything has been fake for some time, it’s just that the quality level has finally dropped low enough to make it noticeable
What are you even talking about?
No, the image is not a frame from any actual moment within the video. Instead it shows all the important points to describe what the video is about. You a have one part, you make a mold and pour resin in the mold.. you get lots of parts.
It’s the important bits all in one picture. That seems like the best way to show one what the video is about to me. I don’t see why you have a problem with that.
Of course all three of those steps don’t appear at the same moment in the video. I’m pretty sure the intended audience perceives time linearly. Don’t you?
You have a problem with the fact they aren’t all displayed at the same scale in the thumbnail? Why should they have to be? It is showing the concept of from 1 making many. Left to right, the direction most people read.. 1 part, molding process.. many parts. If they displayed it all the same scale then the beginning side would have to be mostly empty or else much smaller. I think shifting the scale was absolutely the right thing to do for generating that image!
Mass production.. didn’t happen. So.. you clicked because you wanted to see the process repeated umpteen times? Why? Producing one part would be enough to show you how it’s done so you can go do it yourself. In the video they go through what.. 3 or 4, I didn’t count. That shows you it’s repeatable. After that.. the message is done.
Why do you want the video to show the whole pile being produced? Some sort of ASMR thing? I don’t think that was what it was supposed to be about!
Try looking closer. The person you were replying to wasn’t on about the different sections of the thumbnail being different scales, they were on about the parts on the right not being the same size as each other and having quite significant differences.
Then there is the fact that the ones on the right look like they were resin printed as a single piece with the randomized supports on the bottom. It also looks like it was printed as a single piece when if you watch the video it is clearly two pieces.
If it was just bad Photoshop causing the different sizes they wouldn’t all have physical differences. Along with the fact that it shows resin printed parts it is pretty clear that it was an AI generated thumbnail and the creator didn’t even take the time to check that it looked correct. It is pretty clear the AI just saw that it was made with resin and assumed it was printed as a single piece.
So… the thumbnail was AI. So what? Why does this matter? It’s just a picture meant to get an idea across. Which it does.
Is it an OCD thing? Were the people complaining the kids one never wanted to read a childrens’ story to because they would over-analyze it and pick it apart?
Or Photoshop artists upset they aren’t getting paid?
There probably wasn’t a budget to pay with anyway.
People don’t like AI, myself included. If you don’t understand why, you should do some reading instead of begging to be spoon-fed.
My point is that it is extremely lazy on the part of the creator. They used AI to create what should be a very basic thumbnail, but worse than that the thumbnail is just wrong. It shows something completely wrong and not at all what was done in the video, it shows the parts printed with a resin printer when a resin printer was used nowhere in the video and as shown in the thumbnail the part would not be functional.
My main issue is not AI, it is the laziness, the creator couldn’t even check that their AI generated thumbnail actually showed what was made in the video, instead it just saw resin and assumed it was resin printed.
My issue with the AI part of it is that it doesn’t add or improve anything. It is a very basic thumbnail, it is just laziness.
It also appears that the ones on the right all have resin printing supports on the bottom. I wonder how they managed to cast those?
I didnt bother watching it so im not sure about the part you are speaking about but so you know, Tin cured silicones have no issues with mSLA resin prints. Only platinum cure silicones cure inhibit. So as long as you dont need a clear mold, its not really an issue.
I was talking about the thumbnail. They did not use a resin printer anywhere in the video or the process but the AI generated thumbnail shows the parts with resin printing supports as if the parts had been resin printed. In reality a silicone mold was made from the physical part to be replicated and resin poured into the mold and it was done in two pieces that connect mechanically but the thumbnail shows it resin printed as a single piece.
It seems like the AI generating the thumbnail just saw resin and assumed it was printed and that the creator could not even put in the effort to check that the generated thumbnail was right.
I like the glossy paper trick, I’ll trade you the vacuum pot trick 🫧
Scale modelers do this kind of thing to copy parts, so go look up some modelling sites for more details because this video glosses over some bits that may or may not be important in particular cases. Firstly, resin is brittle, so the copy probably won’t be as durable as the original. Also, resin forms bubbles when curing and some skill is needed to get rid of some of them but I don’t believe there’s a perfect solution.
Crafsman Steady Craftin’ is the only resin casting channel you need (and he does a bunch of other cool stuff).