Shop Tips: Measure Hardness Using a Durometer Tester
Frank Ippolito shows you how you can measure the hardness of various materials around your shop using a simple durometer tester. Useful for replicating rubbers in propmaking!
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Seems like an extremely useful tool in you like of work, Frank.
And here´s another shop tip I learned just this weekend – For quite a while I have been wondering why it’s been so damn difficult, nigh on impossible really, to find activator spray / kicker for CA glues.
Turns out that most of them are off the market due to one or more of the ingredients being super-toxic and in all likelihood also carcinogenic.
But after some digging I managed to find one that’s apparently deemed safe to use. Haven´t tried it yet but it´s called Two-Plus Kicker aerosol from some german manufacturer called Kavan.
If you want to pick them up, here are the links-
Shore A http://amzn.to/2n0xbrj
Shore D http://amzn.to/2lFghOF
Now I haven’t tried this myself, but I read and heard a few times that baking soda makes a good CA kicker. Either dry as a filler (I think Frank has actually talked about this in a previous video, to fill small gaps and cracks in casts), or apparently you can also mix it in water (might have to boil it to dissolve). There are recipes online – some also involve glycerine, but people on forums say it is not needed.
XD nice and funny!
Damn! More tools I have to buy!
handy tools, just bought them on Amazon.
Frank, your costing me a lot of money suggesting all these handy tools.. keep it up lol
While I appreciate the new short format these shop tip videos are taking, this one was lacking. No explanation of what a Durometer is, what the scale means, how it’s useful and what its practical applications are in making stuff. Having seen the video, I don’t see how I would use one.