{"id":3266,"date":"2018-07-12T09:52:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T18:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/crayola-melt-n-mold\/"},"modified":"2018-07-12T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T14:52:01","slug":"crayola-melt-n-mold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/crayola-melt-n-mold\/","title":{"rendered":"Crayola Melt n Mold"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_675\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-675\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-675\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/07\/13902100_10206946931447764_101-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crayola Melt n Mold<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-676\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-676\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/07\/13918569_10206946931407763_528.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Crayon Molds &#8211; Tips<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Crayola Melt n Mold Factory is a good and fun tool for creating small objects made out of crayons. Here are some tips when creating your own mold for the machine. (see &#8220;Creo &#8211; Mold Making&#8221; on the left)<\/p>\n<p>1) Make your runners as thin as possible, but not too thin so that the molten crayon can&#8217;t flow through. After the crayon cools, it will be easier to snap off the runners from your actual object<\/p>\n<p>2) Add a log of pegs\/holes into your design to secure your mold. Having them all around the perimeter ensures that both halves stay together, which prevents crayon from flowing out.<\/p>\n<p>3) If you are designing an object with an outward extrusion (like the MAE plate shown), make sure your extrusion isn&#8217;t too thin. Or else, when you are separating the mold, the thin extrusion could snap in the process (see below). So if you want to print text, use thick\/wide\/short\/stubby font.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-678\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2018\/07\/13898283_10206946931127756_169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Crayola Melt n Mold Factory is a good and fun tool for creating small objects made out of crayons. Here are some tips when creating your own mold for the machine. (see &#8220;Creo &#8211; Mold Making&#8221; on the left) 1) Make your runners as thin as possible, but not too thin so &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/crayola-melt-n-mold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Crayola Melt n Mold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3266","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3270,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3266\/revisions\/3270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/josephhenry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}