Melting a Bratz Girl

[AJ-Paratrooper]

Can one melt the heads or bodies of old barbies or Bratz dolls & maybe pour them into a plaster of paris Mego head mold?

Would doing so, cause instantaneous death due to poisonous fumes?

It'd be kinda cool to recycle some of the stuff I've got. It's the right flesh color, too...

I've never tried it.

I guess you'd need a hard non-meltable mold, huh?

[AAAAA]

yeah , death can occur and home smelling of toxic fumes (never leave) kinda **** off the wife

[kryptosmaster]

I have no idea of the materials that make up the heads but I think it may involve some kind of vulcanization process which I believe would make them difficult, if not impossible, to return to the liquid state they were originally in when the heads were first created. At least maybe not something you could do at home.
Sounds like an interesting experiment to try. Who knows, maybe it'll work?
Rich

[AAAAA]

The vinlys and plastic used in toy manufacturing are hot and thick and have to inject or extruded under high pressure in to a mold .

[AAAAA]

but you want to try ,you must first find out what type of plastic ,grind the bodies up, in to pelits ,add virgin plastic, because heating regrind plastic makes it brittle.then figure out away to pump it in to a plaster mold with out breaking it.
your better of using dental stone.

[aquatroy]

I'm all for melting Bratz dolls, but I think AAAAA is right.

[ctc]

Hmmmm....

The harder plastics could THEORETICALLY be melted; but it'd require such temperature control that it's probably not worth it. They'd stick to plaster too. (You'd need high temp rubber molds.)

....and yeah; the chemically induced death, but I'm thinking the effort required for the result you'd get wouldn't be worth it. Go RTV urethane.

Don C.

[Bizarro Amy]

Wouldn't you need some kind of pressure pot to make the plastic stick evenly to the mold, or at least something to move it around, to get that hollow effect?

[ctc]

>or at least something to move it around, to get that hollow effect?

There's a few ways to do that. You could make separate front and back pieces and glue 'em together. You could swish the plastic around inside the mold. Cast it solid and Dremel it out.... I think actually melting the plastic without burning it would be the real problem.

Don C.

[AAAAA]

some plastics have to to be prep , with a "promoter " to break them down to raw material before you apply heat, some get placed in a heated Tumbler,(cemente Mixer) where its turn in to a semi-liquid paste than it pumped into molds "drop pouring" you use less plastic then ther pump in to a ROTO CAST Mold which spin forceing the plastic line the walls of the mold than leave the interior of the product hollow. It the most effecient use of plastic, Down side , weaker product and time comsuming.

[AJ-Paratrooper]

Thanks for all the manufacturing information.

It was just a thought because I recall in an old Mego article that unused AJ parts were melted down and used for WGSH. I was thinking about applying the same concept to those obnoxious Bratz dolls that have somehow acumulated in the kids' toy bucket over the years.

I think I'd probably just make a huge mess...maybe I'll throw one into the next campfire to see if it melts or just burns....if it melts...hmmm

For now, I'll probably try the traditional method with the glove mold & sculpey. Thanks again for the info.

[AAAAA]

its not a bad idea, you need a ventlated work shop to do it in.And know what type of plastic. member the legs and head might be a different type plastic, and chances are ther are.
you just don't throw whole doll in a pot , the mixture has to to be keep moving,and the heating Vessel has to be heated evenly all over. and timed.

[SlipperyLilSuckers]

[AJ-Paratrooper]

HA HA HA HA!!

[kingdom warrior]

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LOL!!!!! Barbie on the stove mmmmmmmm......