Professional-Grade Moldable Plastic Pellets by Polly Plastics - Cosplay & Hobbyist Supplies for Crafting, Repairs, and More - EZ Grip Jar with Idea Booklet (35 oz)

This stuff is neat. Very easy to use. I recommend an electric kettle and starting with really hot water and letting it cool to a handleable temperature after becoming translucent and removing from the water. Although I did read the instructions, without thinking I donned my vinyl food service gloves. I barely poked the softened material before realizing that was a bad idea. It would have stuck to it. So I quickly removed them and carried on.Now, the reason I bought these thermoplastic pellets (in addition to just being the crafty sort of individual) is for an off label use. The instructions clearly state that it is not for internal use and I accept any liability in my usage of it. With that disclaimer in mind, it does work for making a mold of your teeth. It doesn't taste bad or like anything actually while molding it to teeth. I can imagine that it could very well stick pretty well to teeth if you swished cold water around and it really set up, but that's not what I'm trying to do with it. I love that you can just keep warming it back up to reuse it. I can see using it for many different prototypes and quick fixes where you need to replace a lost piece. Done with one modeled item? Make a mistake? Remelt it and make it into something else. It is fairly flexible when cooled, but solid, not brittle. I tested it by bending several times and it didn't break. Excess material needed to be cut away. They say it can be sanded but I haven't tested that yet. It is white in color but is not fully opaque. I can't wait to try coloring it! And now that I have a better idea of its material qualities, I can't wait to see what uses I will find for it. The 7oz I purchased will go a long way but I can definitely see myself reordering!

Love, love, love this thermoplastic and the bulk price for large projects. It's easy to use and does the job. Examples and tips follow.Fixed a shelf in my fridge where a plastic support had snapped off. Did an approximation and then used a hair dryer to remelt and fine-tune the shape. It's been holding up the shelf for 7 months now (as one of 4 weight-bearing points).For watercolor painting, made a drip-tray/ slanted brush rest for under a canning jar, and a set of brush holders attached to the lid ring. Now I can support my brushes properly, fibers down, while painting.Sculpted a dorsal fin for my friend's pool-cleaning robot that her kids were calling Shamu. Used Instamorph color pellets to make it black and a hair dryer to remelt the base to attach it to the robot.Currently using it to modify retail-store storage bins into a custom flotation apparatus for my lab.Tips: roughen slick surfaces you want it to stick to. If plastic, soften them as well with a heat gun on low. To melt lots of pellets for a big job, I pour them into water in a small Pyrex casserole dish in a workshop-only toaster oven (both from thrift stores). 15 minutes later, when transparent, I stir the goo with tongs and lift it into a silicone pot holder to knead it into shape and press the water out. I pinch off lumps and return the rest to the hot water to keep it pliable. For items that must have flat or smooth surfaces, I use Polly Pellets to attach Kydex sheets, softened with a heat gun.

Great product. Works as described. Use parchment paper! Use parchment paper! You can also use non-stick aluminum foil.Work with the product according to the instructions. This stuff is extremely sticky while it is hot and warm, but after it cools it is not sticky at all. As it cools down, it becomes less and less sticky. While it is still warm it is easily formable and easily malleable.After it is cool, and hard, you can sand it and drill it; HOWEVER, that must be done at very very very low speed, anything higher than hand turning speed causes friction and will re-melt the plastic; then you end up with melted goo all over your drill bits.Dremel not recommended.I've made nuts for bolts by simply wrapping the warm plastic around the bolt and then let it cool to harden and it became the perfect nut. Also, I've made tools with this stuff. Doing gunsmithing work requires me to compress things that require specialized tools with odd shapes, etc. No problem. I would form this plastic to the cold metal and then let it harden; a few c-clamps, a vise... and snap, you have a compression tool.The list of uses is virtually endless.

These worked great. The pellets were a bit bigger than I expected, but it didn’t cause a problem. We used the gold and silver to make gold and silver stuff, but we also used them in combination with other colors to make them more shimmery.One thing we noticed. When combining these with instamorph base pellets, it made the instamorph parts more flexible than usual.

I have gone thru numerous bottles of this stuff, and given it as gifts to several friends and family members. I even put some into my toiletry kit for emergencies while traveling. How have I used it?Making hanging accessories for my rolling desk.Replacing a broken door basket bracket in my refrigerator.Fixing a broken oven door pull until I could order a replacement.Re-attaching a cut piece of body trim in my car when my lift was removed.Filling in stripped out screw holes to make quick repairs.Replacing the top of a car key fob so I could put it back on my key chain.Making various handi-assist items I can put on the end of a metal tipped paint pole. Like... Custom socket/hook so I could unlock and open a door without having to roll up over a large tile border. Custom socket to open and close heating vents in my ceiling. A large hook so I can close my van doors from the other side of my scooter lift without scratching the paint. A custom socket to turn the stove knobs from a seated position without leaning over hot elements, and putting tabs on numerous things so they can be hung where I can easily access them.I love this stuff.