CandleCaster

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Instructions

  • Not all shapes are suitable for candle casting. You get good result with hearts, stars, flowers...
  • If you are not confident with the position of the wick, then set the diameter to "0" and drill it manually after printing.
  • Print it out. If you can, then use flexible material. It will make it easier to get the candle out of the cast.
  • Push a nail into the cast and make sure it is press fit.
  • Heat up some wax and then pour it into the cast.
  • Let it cool down. Perhaps in the fridge, so you will get the candle easier out of the cast.
  • Pull the nail out and get the candle out of the cast.
  • Push the wick thru the candle, perhaps shorten it and your done.
See also Candle pouring instructions from exagon.ch.
CandleCaster works best with a modern browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome.

About CandleCaster | V 0.1

Put together by Kurt Meister and Manuel Meister in December 2014.

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Thanks to Benjamin for his fantastic Stamp-o-Matic, which is based on Potrace by Peter Selinger and on the javascript version by DEFGHI1977 and George Nagaoka, Nitoyon (AS3 version).
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by René K. Müller (UI & CLI), Joost Nieuwenhuijse (core), Eduard Bespalov (core), Gary Hogdson (OpenSCAD translator)

csg.js core & improvements by Evan Wallace, Eduard Bespalov, Joost Nieuwenhuijse, Alexandre Girard
Licenses: MIT License & GPLv2 | Get your copy/clone/fork from GitHub: OpenJSCAD
OpenJSCAD.org , MIT License & GPLv2, get your own copy/clone/fork from GitHub: OpenJSCAD
// -- OpenJSCAD.org logo function main() { return union( difference( cube({size: 3, center: true}), sphere({r:2, center: true}) ), intersection( sphere({r: 1.3, center: true}), cube({size: 2.1, center: true}) ) ).translate([0,0,1.5]).scale(10); }