{"id":1436,"date":"2012-05-25T09:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:19:15","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T14:19:15","slug":"polyurethane-lego-mold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2012\/polyurethane-lego-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"Polyurethane LEGO Mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard yet, we have a lot of expired medical-grade polyurethane. \u00a0The Powers&#8217; family were interested in learning how to make and pour a mold, so what better than LEGOs!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88411.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1436]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1437\" title=\"IMG_8841[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88411-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88411-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88411.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The negative mold was made by placing lots of LEGO bricks on a building base, then surrounding the base with a lip of LEGOs to keep the polyurethane from running over. \u00a0The polyurethane then created the negative of the LEGOs, preparing a cavity in which to pour gelatin to make gummy LEGO bricks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88511.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1436]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1438\" title=\"IMG_8851[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88511-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88511-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88511.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can see the base mold (yellow, on the table) and the finished LEGO bricks here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88401.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1436]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1439\" title=\"IMG_8840[1]\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88401-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88401-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IMG_88401.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re not up to the challenge of building your own mold, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=lego+mold\">plenty online <\/a>\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t heard yet, we have a lot of expired medical-grade polyurethane. \u00a0The Powers&#8217; family were interested in learning how to make and pour a mold, so what better than LEGOs! The negative mold was made by placing<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2012\/polyurethane-lego-mold\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[120,326,236],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-lego","tag-mold","tag-polyurethane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}