Casting Equipment

Expected capital needs

1. Digital scale

2. Vacuum chamber with pump

Expected supply needs

1. Small kits of platinum-cure silicone in different hardnesses

   • What hardnesses and cure times?

2. Silicone pigment in several colors

   • What colors?

   • Pigment is useful to indicate proper mixing, but also an aesthetic choice.

3. Release agent spray

4. Disposable mixing containers

5. Disposable mixing sticks

6. Disposable gloves in different sizes

7. Pneumatic barb fittings to cast into structures

8. Wax for mold cores?

9. Syringes, tubing, pneumatic fittings

10. Syringes with blunt needle tips (for material or air injection)

11. Stiffening materials? Sleeving? Fabric? Mesh? Paper?

Other Equipment

1. Small aquarium

Future Wishlist

1. Spin-coating centrifuge

2. Curing oven

3. CNC machine for material injection