Mar. 1-17

Meeting up with the 3D print lab employees happened to be the best possible thing I could have done. After having a long talk about what I was trying to do, someone suggested that I use silicone and pour that over the pieces to create a flexible and food-safe mold.

Searching though Amazon, I found the only food-safe silicone available and purchased a trial size. I wanted to be sure that this would work out before I invested a lot of time and money into another product I had never worked with before. And to my astonishing delight, it worked fantastically.

Because the 3D printed pieces are hollow I taped them to the bottom of cake pans with double-sided tape to keep them from floating in the silicone.

Then I proceeded, with the help of my father (since I was home for his birthday this particular weekend), to pour the bubble gum pink mixture over the pieces and I allowed it to cure for 24 hours. Once the time had elapsed I was able to pop the mold out of the pan and remove the pieces easily. It looked like this was finally the answer to how I could make my design a reality.

Here are some photographs of the pouring process:

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I then purchased enough silicone to make the other three molds. Here is how they turned out:

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pink mold

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pink form 3

pink form 2a

pink form 2b

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All that was left was to pour some chocolate in them and see if all the hard work would pay off.

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