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You might want to use a temperature-controlled heat gun, like the ones amazon has listed as "rework stations" instead, as shown in some of the other repair threads. then you know what temperature the air is because you set it to that, rather than an uncontrolled always-too-hot air like the...

The descriptions sound like a blood pressure cuff machine (air pump filling a bladder).

TPE is cast using high temperatures. Silicone of the types used for things like this is cast using catalyzing curing techniques, usually at room temperatures. I can't imagine a way you could mix the two together during casting. You could, in theory, cast TPE parts, cool them to room temperature, rem...

As often happens with google, I was looking for something completely unrelated and found something called Hegar Dilators like these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B095WYDDMG which you could use a dremel or files and sandpaper / buffing wheels to modify the surface into a "negative mold" of the...

If you have any thrift stores around, sometimes they have bags of (sometimes stainless steel) socket wrench sockets of various sizes. If not, hardware stores have singles of about every size available. If you check the inside diameter of the tubing you have to weld, you could get one of those socket...

Which specific solvent was used? Wheezer has a thread about the 3M stuff, which has predictable results. Anything other than that will depend on what it's label and datsheet says it is chemically. Anything unlabelled, well, if it doesn't have correct labelling and an MSDS sheet available then you ca...

possibly useful? https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803372925396.html?spm=a2g0o.store_pc_allProduct.8148356.30.361f4a32UuNaEn&pdp_npi=2%40dis%21USD%21US%20%24698.00%21US%20%24397.86%21%21%21%21%21%402101f4a016821355228172228e8ebf%2112000027228294861%21sh&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa&_randl_shipt...

This finds some of them https://dollforum.com/forum/search.php?keywords=*lift*&terms=all&author=&sc=1&sf=titleonly&sr=topics&sk=t&sd=d&st=0&ch=300&t=0&submit=Search like this one https://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=148147&hilit=%2Alift%2A This ...

Maybe install a drain in the bedroom floor, and install tile?


More seriously, there are a few threads about doll-moving stands/cranes that you could adapt for this purpose.

If it helps, somewhere around here is a thread about a Skyrim voice mod program, that also discusses some others.

TPR should also work (it's also a thermoplastic, and has been reported to be what Fleshlights are made from, and possibly some other "toys").

Unfortunately silicone needs to be cast into the shape you want it to have, and isn't remoldable thermally like TPR and TPE.

A full aluminum skeleton would shave 20 pounds off a tall doll. I don't think the whole skeleton weighs that much. I had one here that if it weighed as much as 5lbs total, I'd eat my hat. :lol: Also, to make an aluminum skeleton able to handle the same loads the super-thin-wall stainless steel one ...

A thought: If you use a more "pure" dragonskin for the surface cast, then "fill" the cast's thickness with "fat" made of slacker-thinned dragonskin, it will feel and react more like skin. An inner layer of "muscle" of a harder "pure" version of drago...

As RevJack said, it's a "thinner". If you use enough to make harder versions softer, it will leave your casts gummy, and this *never* goes away (until enough debris, dirt, or other stuff has stuck to the surface to block this effect until the surface fractures or tears enough to expose mor...

IIRC, titanium and stainless (or other steels) will gall if used in joints/etc against each other.