Hey everyone so we're here getting ready to just film our next YouTube video for everyone and there
was a lot of people especially on Instagram when we did our poll that the main thing it
sounds like you guys want to see is how to videos so that's what we've got for you today we're gonna
be building a mold on our table here for a coffee table actually it's just it's pretty small coffee
table it's about like 5 feet long about two and a half feet wide but it's going to get a reson River
down the middle these here check out those are actually this last so we've got two pieces there
Claro walnut and they're gonna get a translucent gray River right down the middle so I'm gonna try
and give everyone tips and tricks on how we build the mold how we seal it and then I also want to
give you some tips on how we keep our resin cool which is with this aluminum table here and we also
happen to be in our new forum so this if you look around you can see it's a lot bigger than it was
before over here this his line on the floor you can actually like see the line this dirty part
first the clean part the dirty part was from the whole decor room so you can see was very
small and now we've just doubled the size so we've got two boring tables in here right now
but we're going to be building another so we can increase our production on these poor tables here
you can see we've actually got the the bottom is made from aluminum you can hear it and then
we've got a thin sheet of plastic taped over top of the aluminum and now we're just actually going
to be taping down this thicker piece of plastic on top we just use duct tape right like we just cut
a little strip like this we'll stick it down on the top make sure it's all nice and flat get the
tape out of my mouth and then we'll just kind of pull it with a little bit of pressure and
but down so our goal with this year is just to try and completely flatten out all of the
plastic on there and the plastics actually would let's the whole thing release without sticking
so what we're doing right now is I am just putting down a nice pretty good-sized bead of silicone all
the way along the bottom of this mold piece and essentially what this does it's not only going
to hold the part mold in place but it's also going to prevent any leaks we like when we first started
doing these we would just coat the pieces and tape and we would just screw everything together
and kind of cross our fingers and hope it didn't leak but we found that with the silicone it just
stops every leak and then you'll see after we've got this down once we have our bead of
silicone along the bottom and we flip it over we actually run another bead on the inside just
so that anything that somehow did find its way through and managed to leave we're not going to
be affected by that now that we've got the outside of the mold built what we're going to want to do
let these slabs right on out of there and the reason we're taking the spot out now is so we
can hit that out that inside edge with silicone like that right now we're just putting down some
strong backs or what we call them essentially these are just clamped over top of the mold
so that we can make sure it's gonna stick down to the bottom this clamps then we've got these braces
on the bottom side of our table tightening okay let's go and we just clean up these braces just
so we don't have any gaps between here between the table and the MDF those will sit now the
last thing we're gonna do here is we're just going to run a final bead along all the inside seams so
that it just can't leak out now we're under the last step here Dennis is just going around and
we did the inside already now we're just doing a bead on the outside it might not be a hundred
percent necessary like you could probably get away with just doing the inside but it's just
better safe than sorry we just like to put as much silicone as we can so this will sit like
this overnight and then when we come back in the morning we're gonna take these braces off lift the
slabs in and then actually put the braces back on so we'll leave everything to dry we're gonna
for tomorrow all right so it's the next day we now you check it out we've got the slabs lifted
in so they're in the actual orientation that we're gonna want to have them to pour and then
we've just got these like I said these we call them our strong backs and they're quent to the
bottom of the table but now instead of them just being used to hold the mold down we've actually
got these little blocks that are they contact the slab on one side they contact on the other
side and this is actually what prevents the piece from floating but we did our first pieces that we
did like with this style we we've put them in the mold and we didn't silicone them down we
didn't clamp him down and it was it was like a 30 liter pour we did our pour everything was
good and then the slab actually floated right up to the top of the surface so that was stressful
luckily were able to clamp it down but if you put these blocks that's not going to happen
we're done the poor being put it was about 30 liters that we ended up Oregon here the molds all
fill looks like there's no leads yet so we'll keep our fingers crossed but I'll just kind of recap
what we've done here in all the different systems that we have in place to make this work so the
first thing that was really crucial to the whole part of this is having that bottom of aluminum
table because that's going to remove all of the heat thus generated from a chemical reaction the
next thing that we did is we laid our piece of plastic over top taped it down made sure it was
really tight so that we had no creases after that we taped up all of our pieces for the farm we've
measured how big we want to cut them we cut the end pieces to the same width is our piece and then
the longer pieces they could just hang right off then we actually screwed everything together and
sealed it down with silicone on the bottom once that was together we went a long piece inside
and we did a bead of silicone along the inside and then actually following that we did another
bead of silicone all the way along the other side so it's it should be leak proof there's basically
no way that I could think of the disbelief and the final thing we have in place is is new for us this
gizmo right here is our our temperature control so there's actually a thermometer in there it's
pointing down and reading the temperature of the resin and you can see it's connected with
the cord which follows right into the computer and on the computer here we've got our object
temperature which is actually the resin let's talk one here we've got our ambient temperature
which is the temperature of the room we've got a bunch of stuff that I don't even know what it
means then we've got how long it's been since the bar and then we have a graph that just shows all
the changes in temperature so that's our process for doing a resin pour you know we're
constantly learning so I'm not saying it's the best or the only way to do it but you know with
our couple of years of experience doing this this moving found it to be the best way to do it but
thanks everyone for tuning in really appreciate you watching we're gonna have weekly videos
every Friday that we're gonna try and upload and we've got a some really cool ideas coming
up for some future ones even to get you guys involved in the videos so have a good one