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COFFEE CUPS; HOW TO????
Topic Started: Oct 14 2009, 06:41 PM (272 Views)
Bryan_M	Oct 14 2009, 06:41 PM Post #1
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	hey guys, what can i make coffee cups out of? im gonna need some for the interior of my van, its gonna have lots of trash in it.......stuff piled up on the dash.....ect....ect, and i definetely need coffee cups! let me know, thanks guys! bryan



DamnCranky666	Oct 14 2009, 06:50 PM Post #2
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Paper. make them out of paper, or very thin .15 plastic sheet?



Hollywood Jim	Oct 14 2009, 06:55 PM Post #3
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,901 Group: Members Member #527 Joined: December 13, 2006	Drinking straws. Not the big ones, not the little ones. There are some that are just right.



Bryan_M	Oct 14 2009, 06:59 PM Post #4
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	thanks guys...........im gonna try something bryan



Lou	Oct 14 2009, 07:14 PM Post #5
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	You could probably slush mold them using part of the tip from a tube of caulking as your male mold and then slush mold or "paint" the inside of the female mold with resin to a very thin thickness. You could also heat up a sheet a plastic and punch it with the end of pencil or dowel that has its tip cut off so the shape of the tip is the cone shape of a cup. when the plastic cools, cut off the cups and trim them to size. Or if you can wait a few months, and the way the economy is going just stop by a local Dunkin Donuts and rummage through the waste basket for their large size used coffee cups.



Bryan_M	Oct 14 2009, 07:27 PM Post #6
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	oooohh..........good ideas lou! bryan



kingme	Oct 14 2009, 07:36 PM Post #7
Supreme Member!!! Posts: 1,026 Group: Members Member #645 Joined: March 7, 2007	I was checking out Jim's Dollhouse Page : http://www.printmini.com/printables/ph.shtml they don't have a coffee cup, but they do have take out boxes, newpapers, and blue prints.



Bryan_M	Oct 14 2009, 07:43 PM Post #8
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	cool wayne! i forgot about that site........... bryan



DamnCranky666	Oct 14 2009, 07:46 PM Post #9
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	Yeah, that place is a gold mine for all kinds of neat stuff.



DaveInTheHat	Oct 14 2009, 07:58 PM Post #10
Advanced Member In The Hat Posts: 2,160 Group: Members Member #386 Joined: August 20, 2006	How about this. http://www.seltd.net//ez-catalog/X344897//25108-S Making them out of paper wouldn't be too hard.



Bryan_M	Oct 14 2009, 08:05 PM Post #11
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	i think im gonna try paper first, and if that doesnt work..........ill find something that is the right shape, and start cutting them out...... bryan



Lou	Oct 14 2009, 08:13 PM Post #12
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	They could be made out of paper but it might be hard to get the bottom correct. The resin cups look a bit too heavy in the walls, plus it would be hard to give them a crushed look. Ooo Ooo Here's the best idea yet. There is a carpenter guy Virg or Suarez something like that, that has a lathe. Ask him to turn down a few dozen cups on his lathe in exchange for cash payment for the truck repairs you are doing for him. Here's one more possibility for making cups. Take a piece of thin walled brass tubing the approximate size of the bottom of the cup and insert a metal punch in the tube and whack it with a hammer that will swage out the top end of the tube and give it a proper taper like a cup has. Then either punch out a disk to create the bottom or just put some filler in the bottom of the tube. To get the rolled lip on the top of the cup just dip it in some heavy paint a few times and presto you have a rolled lip. On second thought just roll a piece of paper into a cone shape and cut it off to the size you want. Edited by Lou, Oct 14 2009, 08:18 PM.



DaveInTheHat	Oct 14 2009, 09:10 PM Post #13
Advanced Member In The Hat Posts: 2,160 Group: Members Member #386 Joined: August 20, 2006	Here's a paper one. http://miniatures.about.com/od/dollhouseprintables/ig/Printable-Paper-Plates/



Lou	Oct 14 2009, 09:27 PM Post #14
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	Great source Dave. Print those on bible paper and you got a winner.



DamnCranky666	Oct 15 2009, 08:11 AM Post #15
Admin--Chief Crank Posts: 14,957 Group: Admin Member #666 Joined: April 1, 2007	I like the buck and melted plastic idea . . . this way you can do as many as you need, quickly.



nkhandekar	Oct 15 2009, 10:27 AM Post #16
Advanced Member Posts: 1,796 Group: Members Member #523 Joined: December 13, 2006	Bryan I made this squashed coffe cup out of the foam on a Gerolsteiner sparkling mineral water bottle.



Lou	Oct 15 2009, 12:10 PM Post #17
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	NK. Where might I ask is Bryan going to find Gerolsteiner sparkling mineral water in his town? Have you seen pictures of his town that he posted? He would be lucky to find Canada Dry club soda in the local supermarket let alone Gerolsteiner sparkling mineral water. Even I who live in New York City would have a hard time finding Gerolsteiner sparkling or not mineral water. BTW, great little street dio you show there. Not a shiny car in sight. Edited by Lou, Oct 15 2009, 12:11 PM.



khamilton	Oct 15 2009, 12:24 PM Post #18
Diorama Moderator Posts: 4,229 Group: Members Member #522 Joined: December 13, 2006	Hollywood Jim Oct 14 2009, 06:55 PM Drinking straws. Not the big ones, not the little ones. There are some that are just right. Some little coffee stirrers will work if you can find the right diameter Edited by khamilton, Oct 15 2009, 12:25 PM.



Lou	Oct 15 2009, 12:32 PM Post #19
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	Plastic drinking straws would work if you flare them a bit with a tapered heated rod. Warm not hot.



Bryan_M	Oct 15 2009, 12:33 PM Post #20
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	great ideas guys! im sure i will be able to make something work........ too funny lou!! yea we`re lucky we can get EVIAN water here.......hell we`re lucky to have TAP water here............LOL! this town is falling down around itself, i cant wait till they just bulldoze it all......its a shame this town was very busy back in the 70s, but now its just a shadow of its former self......... thanks guys!..............great dio NK! bryan



DaveInTheHat	Oct 15 2009, 02:15 PM Post #21
Advanced Member In The Hat Posts: 2,160 Group: Members Member #386 Joined: August 20, 2006	I had a friend that was a retired oceanographer. He had some Styrofoam cups that he sent really deep to the bottom of the ocean some place. Because of the pressure and no air they came back about 3/4 of an inch tall. He sent down a cooler and some of those Styrofoam heads. They came back real small and distorted. Anyway....maybe if you got some small cups and put them in a pressure pot you could shrink them?



Lou	Oct 15 2009, 03:35 PM Post #22
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	WOW! If that really works then all any builder has to do is pop a 1:1 object in the cooker and presto a scale version of it comes out. That would mean that if I went out and bought a mint mid sixties muscle car and put it in the pressure cooker, out would pop a fully detailed SA cover car. Oops wouldn't the paint blister a bit? Then again I really don't think Bryan wants to lay out over a quarter million dollars to support the big dive for a few lousy cups. He might to save time, but I doubt it.



nkhandekar	Oct 15 2009, 05:13 PM Post #23
Advanced Member Posts: 1,796 Group: Members Member #523 Joined: December 13, 2006	Lou it has to be an expanded foam to work al la Cousteau. Now if you made a 1:1 car out of foam and sent it to the bottom of the Mariana trench, then you have some possibilities.



Bryan_M	Oct 15 2009, 05:24 PM Post #24
ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 12,481 Group: Admin Member #355 Joined: July 26, 2006	to get them down really small you gotta send them to the "challenger deep"(part of the marianas)....its about 36,000 feet (6.7 miles) to the bottom! it would be under 16,500 PSI !! ive seen them send those foam heads down there, and they come back about 1/4 of the size they were originally....thats some cool stuff, and yea i watch the science channel WAY too much! LOL............there was a show on the ohter night about the trench. bryan



Lou	Oct 15 2009, 05:33 PM Post #25
Bronze Medal Member Posts: 2,798 Group: Members Member #622 Joined: February 15, 2007	NK. Jacques Cousteau, whom I met once, was very short and shy by the way, was mostly a shallow diver type of aquanaut. I believe for this foam cup thing to work successfully one must look closer to the deep sea dives that were done by the Swiss diver Jacques Piccard In 1960. Again it would be costly to pursue that approach to make a few cups for Bryan's build, but between him and the owner of that carpenter business,which BTW I hear is also a very successful poet, the costs can be covered. Unfortunately I don't think they can submerge and come back with the cups before the final finish deadline time this Saturday.



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