Oogoo Mixer by doctek 3d model
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Oogoo Mixer by doctek

Oogoo Mixer by doctek

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Last crawled date: 2 years, 12 months ago
Oogoo ( http://www.instructables.com/id/How-To-Make-Your-Own-Sugru-Substitute/ and http://www.instructables.com/id/7-Things-To-Fix-Or-Do-With-Oogoo/ ) is great stuff! Inexpensive, easy to mold, easy to clean up, quick setting, and makes parts with a nice soft yet firm feel to them. The only thing I don't like is mixing it up. Combining silicone and corn starch, possibly along with some coloring agent, is not easy. Messy, hard to get uniform, and the time taken eats into the working time for the Oogoo. There must be a better way.
Here's my answer. Use an auger to press the stuff thru some plates with holes in them. Minimal mixing is needed to just get the corn starch sort of wetted with silicone. Then inject it into the auger, turn the auger, and out comes uniformly mixed Oogoo, ready to mold. Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE8L7yjxwAE&feature=youtu.be
This is very much a work in process. The OpenSCAD for the Auger needs to be parameterized and there should be a base plate of some sort to hold things together.

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