{"id":1333,"date":"2017-07-12T13:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T18:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:06:02","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T16:06:02","slug":"making-soap-molds-material-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1333","title":{"rendered":"Making Soap Molds &#8211; Material Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before trying to print my own soap molds, I need to identify what characteristics I like in a mold. I find flexible molds easier to work with than rigid ones &#8211; I&#8217;ve snapped a number of molds trying to remove the soap.<\/p>\n<p>So I am trying to find a material that will withstand heat generated by saponification. It looks like saponification can yield temperatures up to 88\u00b0 C. I don&#8217;t want to buy <i>pounds<\/i> of different filaments to test them out, but GlobalFSD offers &#8220;sample&#8221; size filament cuttings that are perfect for experimentation or small niche products (e.g. printing glow in the dark mailbox numbers).<\/p>\n<p>One material included information about temps for printed objects, so I&#8217;ve contacted the other manufacturers to see if they provide any sort of guidance.<\/p>\n<table width=\"1010\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"129\">Material<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Max C<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Min C<\/td>\n<td width=\"64\">Notes<\/td>\n<td width=\"689\">URL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NinjaFlex<\/td>\n<td>65.5<\/td>\n<td>-30<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>https:\/\/www.globalfsdusa.com\/ninjaflex-by-fenner-drives.html?category_id=20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>CrystalFlex<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0&#8211;<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211;<\/td>\n<td>Food safe<\/td>\n<td>https:\/\/www.globalfsdusa.com\/crystalflex-tm-by-formfutura.html?category_id=20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>FilaFlex<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>https:\/\/www.globalfsdusa.com\/filaflex-by-recreus-1-75mm.html?category_id=20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #a0f98b;\">FlexFill<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #a0f98b;\">230<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #a0f98b;\">-40<\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #a0f98b;\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #a0f98b;\">https:\/\/www.globalfsdusa.com\/flexfil-98a-by-fillamentum-1-75mm.html?category_id=20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>F41 Flex<\/td>\n<td>75<\/td>\n<td>-20<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>https:\/\/www.globalfsdusa.com\/f41-flex-tm-1-75mm-black-polyolefin-filament-by-forefront.html?category_id=20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before trying to print my own soap molds, I need to identify what characteristics I like in a mold. I find flexible molds easier to work with than rigid ones &#8211; I&#8217;ve snapped a number of molds trying to remove the soap. So I am trying to find a material that will withstand heat generated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,125],"tags":[243,242],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-soapmaking","tag-3d-printing","tag-soap-molds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}