What You Need to Start
A Plastiform case holds the products and accessories you need to make and cut an impression. Under normal conditions of use, you need no protective equipment, only a degreased part and some practice on a training part before you start.
What a Plastiform Case Contains
- Plastiform products, in Fluid, Pasty and Manual Putty.
- The DM-50 dispensing gun: it extrudes and mixes the two components of a 50 ml cartridge.
- Nozzles: they mount on the cartridge and mix the two components at a 1:1 ratio.
- Tips: thin ends that clip on a nozzle, for narrow internal cavities and fewer bubbles.
- Demolding rings in several diameters: placed on the cavity, they create a grip to pull the impression out.
- Plastin: a technical modeling clay that never dries, which you use as a support or to bound the application area.
- Fill’in: metal twists that chase bubbles out of very small holes.
- The Double Blade Cutter and its cutting guide: they cut parallel slices that you can read on a profile projector.
- DN1 degreaser: you must apply it before every impression.
The dosing spoons for Manual Putty are not in the case. They come with the pots.
What You Do Not Need
Under normal conditions of use, you do not need gloves, a mask or dedicated ventilation. If you do wear gloves, do not use latex. Contact with latex can block polymerization.
Before the First Impression
Degrease your part with DN1 or another validated degreaser before every impression, without exception. Skipping this step is the most frequent mistake of new users. Oils, chips and machining residues prevent a faithful polymerization and distort the dimensions.
Practice on a training part first, and repeat each movement. You learn the technique by doing.
If you do not know which product to start with, the Plastiform Finder gives a recommendation from a few questions.
