Curious Aardvark
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The glande roller moulds, work well - but you have to be pretty pedantic with the amount of clay. ie: it needs to be within a gram or so of the same weight every time.
problems I've had with press moulds in the past is the same. you need the exact amount of clay, plus you also have the need to line the mould with clingfilm to stop the clay sticking to it.
But if you could make a press mould non-stick - quick wipe with 3-1n-one oil on kitchen paper, perhaps. And also intruduce pressure release channels so that you could just dump a lump in, squeeze and get a perfect glande every time - it'd be worth doing.
I have bugger all experience with moulds beyong the glande experiments. Anyone know how they release the excess clay in commercial factories ?
I'd also like to make the press mould hinged, which would give you directional pressure and only require channels one side.
If you put holes along the top and bottom edge of the mould, then getting the glande out is going to be a right sod and it'll deform in the process. So it's going to need to come out along the edges.
I figure you could use a gapped guilliotine effect and use that to cut the skirt when you opened the mould, and remove the excess.
So I'm looking for ideas, things I might not have thought of etc.
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