 Welcome to a new precious plastic video. In this video, we're going to make a mold for the injection machine casted from aluminum and we're going to make these wall climbing grips. The interesting part of this technique is that it doesn't require any complex machinery to make it. It's pretty basic. It's all handmade so it also gives a lot of freedom in terms of which form you want. Another upside is that it's relatively affordable to make something like this because it's a lot of basic tools and materials. The downside is that it still requires quite some effort and steps to really do this. You need to be kind of a skilled mold maker. So the process is still quite experimental and this video our friend from France, Shoei, he's a mold maker and craftsman. He will be showing you how to make a mold casted from aluminum to use in the precious plastic machine. Hey! Hey! Yes, so for this tutorial, we are going to make two molds. The first one, the easier one, is only one part from aluminum and the other part from with a plate still. Still plates, exactly. And the other one, a bit more complex with two parts from aluminum and still a plate. So the first step we need to do is to model the shape we want with clay. We'll get it in plastic later. Which is important is to get a proper consistency because when the clay is too wet, it just gets super sticky on your fingers and it could be annoying and when it's too dry, then you cannot properly model it. Use a board so it's easier to turn around your object. You can use some tools like knife to model the clay to get around, to get a wrong shape like the grip. I prefer to work with my fingers. It's super playful and easy. So with clay, it might be a bit sketchy like this. So to polish it, what you could do is just put your fingers into water and this way you will manage to get smooth surface, smooth texture, which is for sure better. So now we have our shape from clay. We are going to do a plastic mold around and from this plastic mold, we're going to get the aluminum mold. It's going to be exactly the same but stronger. Now it is time to make the plaster. So before it's getting too strong, you can already spread the first layer on your shape. And because it's liquid, you will get all the details up. So our two molds are ready. Just check around and thanks to the Vaseline we put, it just pop out. So here it is. Okay, so these are our plaster molds. So the simple one and the more complex one. The next step will be to take the print of each piece with a special fondre some to pour the aluminum inside. Okay, so now we have our plaster mold up a bit more dry and the two pop molds up. And what we want now is from this to get this. So same for this popper, we are going to use some fondre sand. So when you press it, it's taking the print. Right in the middle, this is what you get. This is our print. Now we have our sand mold and what we need is aluminum. So you can use any kind of aluminum which is also super interesting process like yeah, cans, piece of old machine, any kind of and to melt it, we are going to use a rocket stove, pretty basic. And if you're interested about this technique, you can find many information on the internet. Tutorials about how to build yours. So let's go. Here we are. These are our three sand molds, one mold for each plaster mold. So we are going to start the aluminum casting. To melt the aluminum, we are going to use a rocket stove. So our rocket stove is pretty basic and rough. Here we start on the fire. This is our bucket to melt the aluminum and to increase the temperature. We are using a basic air dryer which is going to blow inside the fire through this tube. Here is the aluminum and here is the charcoal, just basic barbecue charcoal. Let's go. This is the fun part. To open the mold and see what's inside. So it's the clue moment. Go. This is what we were expecting to get. Cool. Yeah, let's see. Let's wait, everything is cooling down, then we can just clean the border and drill the holes to connect the pieces together and start casting the plastic. Nice. Okay, so now our casting is still a bit rough. So we need to clean it and drill the holes, cut the steel plates and weld the connector. Okay, we have a mold and yeah, it's quite a lot of work. But the more car you put in your mold and the more detail it is and the more detail you will get on your casting. So yeah, I think it's worth it. And now we are going to use the injection machine to cast this with recycled plastic. Aluminium mold is finished. I weld the injection cap and here are the bolts around. And now we are going to cast it with the injection machine right here. We injected the plastic, now it's time to open the mold. Hey, so now we have our casting ready. So yeah, with the injection machine you can really play around with the color, do as much as you want. And yeah, get really the shape you want, which is nice. So I hope this tutorial was clear and if you have questions you can just ask on the forum. That was my sentence. Ah, shit, okay. So if you have any questions feel free to post the topic in our forums. And if you need more information go to preciousplastic.com. And that's it for this video. Hope to see you again in the next one. Yeah.