what’s up guys we are back in the lab
today and this time with a couple of new
toys these are a couple of real-life
pokeballs you may have seen floating
around on the Internet
I got this one from Denmark them from
the what’s inside channel where they cut
open a metal pokeball so if you want to
see what they look like on the inside go
check them out this one’s from the Devin
Supertramp channel where they produced a
video on Pokemon in real life a couple
of good quality videos if you want to
see them go check them out the links are
in the description these things don’t
actually belong to me I do have to give
them back but while they’re in my
possession I thought it’d be fun to cast
them in silicone so we can make exact
replicas and have our own silicone
pokeball mold for casting whatever we
want
I have explicit instructions to give
this pokeball back in the same condition
I received it the funny thing about this
is when Devin lent this to me he asked
me not to scratch it up but to return it
in the same condition I got it if you
set your pokeball down they fall forward
so there’s definitely some electronics
or something waited inside that makes
them go facedown I would rather that
these things sit upward-facing at a 45
degree angle or flat so when we design
our molds we’re going to have two
designs they come out a little bit
better like that I notice on the bottom
half here I can wiggle it there’s a
little bit of play so that makes me
believe that there might be a way to
separate these two halves we gently work
around the edges you can actually see
that there’s a clasp under there there
we go okay cool so our pokeball does
separate into two halves you can see
it’s actually got three latches to hold
together and this is why it’s top-heavy
it’s got this really heavy metal button
near the front and apparently there
aren’t any batteries in this so that
makes a lot of sense as to why it’s not
working now these button cell batteries
are 2016 and they should be 2032 for
this unit but to compensate for that all
we need to do really is just bend these
wires up a little bit so they make
contact let’s tuck the wires in out of
the way and put the two halves back
together and it should click back into
place there we go and now we get a
little light-up pokeball you’re welcome
Devin don’t say I didn’t do anything for
you now these balls are mostly filled
with error which means if we put them in
the container and fill it up with
silicone they’re going to float to the
top and that’s not going to be good for
getting a mold we need to weight them
down
[Music]
there we go I heard a snap awesome just
like that our pokeballs gained some
weight so we’re back inside and I packed
these things full of as many rocks as I
could get into them which has given them
a significant amount of weight that’s
gonna be important because we want these
things to stay down at the bottom of the
silicon so at this point let’s go ahead
and fire up our hot glue gun gather up
some acrylic and start mixing some
silicones
[Music]
so check this out I’ve got two black
dots on my acrylic and what we’re going
to do is glue the base of the pokéballs
on there so they angle up at a 45-degree
angle then we’re going to take these
five inch acrylic tubes place them over
top of the pokéballs and use a bead of
hot glue to secure them in place and
make them air tight the only thing left
to do after that is to pour in the
silicone let them set and see if we got
ourselves a polka mold now in my last
silicone pouring video I didn’t explain
how to mix up the silicone but there are
basically two steps there’s the white
runny silicone which is really icky and
gooey stuff and then you have something
called a catalyst which can come in
different colors in my last video we
used a red catalyst so in this video I
thought it’d be fun to use purple and we
mix this in on a ratio of 1 to 10 and
that’s by weight silicone is really
sticky stuff to work with so if you do
get any on you it’s a real pain in the
butt so this is why I’m wearing gloves
so let’s slap a bowl on our scale
measure out some silicone and then add
10 percent of the catalyst and mix it in
thoroughly 5 pounds 4 ounces 2 grams
Oh 1 pounds equals 2381 point three six
grams answers my question so we want 239
grams of our hardener at this point you
can see the consistency kind of looks
like blueberry yogurt actually looks
really good really nice and I forgot a
cloth so we’re just going to set this on
my workbench I’ll let that harden up
later all right cool it’s time to pour
[Music]
you can already see on this one trapped
air bubbles are starting to rise out I’m
just going to help those along by
getting a little jiggle hopefully those
little doodles will help release any
trapped air bubbles because if there’s
anything trapped on the inside that’s
not going to work out very well for us
now you can see I made a ridiculous mess
pulling this stuff we’ve got leaks
coming through the sides we’ve got it
spilling over the top you can see this
puddle where the beaters have been
leaking silicone and right now it’s
extremely sticky we come back tomorrow
when it’s firmed up and rather than
having a sticky mess that whole thing
will peel right off and clean up without
any trouble at all
so our real-life pokeballs are
completely encapsulated in silicone
right now we really have no way of
knowing whether or not they turned out
so did we secure them well enough to the
base or are they going to float to the
top you’re going to join me in the next
video because tomorrow we cut them open
rip them apart and take a look at what
we’ve got thanks so much for joining me
for this experiment I’ll be looking for
you the next one doc you then
[Music]
you
today and this time with a couple of new
toys these are a couple of real-life
pokeballs you may have seen floating
around on the Internet
I got this one from Denmark them from
the what’s inside channel where they cut
open a metal pokeball so if you want to
see what they look like on the inside go
check them out this one’s from the Devin
Supertramp channel where they produced a
video on Pokemon in real life a couple
of good quality videos if you want to
see them go check them out the links are
in the description these things don’t
actually belong to me I do have to give
them back but while they’re in my
possession I thought it’d be fun to cast
them in silicone so we can make exact
replicas and have our own silicone
pokeball mold for casting whatever we
want
I have explicit instructions to give
this pokeball back in the same condition
I received it the funny thing about this
is when Devin lent this to me he asked
me not to scratch it up but to return it
in the same condition I got it if you
set your pokeball down they fall forward
so there’s definitely some electronics
or something waited inside that makes
them go facedown I would rather that
these things sit upward-facing at a 45
degree angle or flat so when we design
our molds we’re going to have two
designs they come out a little bit
better like that I notice on the bottom
half here I can wiggle it there’s a
little bit of play so that makes me
believe that there might be a way to
separate these two halves we gently work
around the edges you can actually see
that there’s a clasp under there there
we go okay cool so our pokeball does
separate into two halves you can see
it’s actually got three latches to hold
together and this is why it’s top-heavy
it’s got this really heavy metal button
near the front and apparently there
aren’t any batteries in this so that
makes a lot of sense as to why it’s not
working now these button cell batteries
are 2016 and they should be 2032 for
this unit but to compensate for that all
we need to do really is just bend these
wires up a little bit so they make
contact let’s tuck the wires in out of
the way and put the two halves back
together and it should click back into
place there we go and now we get a
little light-up pokeball you’re welcome
Devin don’t say I didn’t do anything for
you now these balls are mostly filled
with error which means if we put them in
the container and fill it up with
silicone they’re going to float to the
top and that’s not going to be good for
getting a mold we need to weight them
down
[Music]
there we go I heard a snap awesome just
like that our pokeballs gained some
weight so we’re back inside and I packed
these things full of as many rocks as I
could get into them which has given them
a significant amount of weight that’s
gonna be important because we want these
things to stay down at the bottom of the
silicon so at this point let’s go ahead
and fire up our hot glue gun gather up
some acrylic and start mixing some
silicones
[Music]
so check this out I’ve got two black
dots on my acrylic and what we’re going
to do is glue the base of the pokéballs
on there so they angle up at a 45-degree
angle then we’re going to take these
five inch acrylic tubes place them over
top of the pokéballs and use a bead of
hot glue to secure them in place and
make them air tight the only thing left
to do after that is to pour in the
silicone let them set and see if we got
ourselves a polka mold now in my last
silicone pouring video I didn’t explain
how to mix up the silicone but there are
basically two steps there’s the white
runny silicone which is really icky and
gooey stuff and then you have something
called a catalyst which can come in
different colors in my last video we
used a red catalyst so in this video I
thought it’d be fun to use purple and we
mix this in on a ratio of 1 to 10 and
that’s by weight silicone is really
sticky stuff to work with so if you do
get any on you it’s a real pain in the
butt so this is why I’m wearing gloves
so let’s slap a bowl on our scale
measure out some silicone and then add
10 percent of the catalyst and mix it in
thoroughly 5 pounds 4 ounces 2 grams
Oh 1 pounds equals 2381 point three six
grams answers my question so we want 239
grams of our hardener at this point you
can see the consistency kind of looks
like blueberry yogurt actually looks
really good really nice and I forgot a
cloth so we’re just going to set this on
my workbench I’ll let that harden up
later all right cool it’s time to pour
[Music]
you can already see on this one trapped
air bubbles are starting to rise out I’m
just going to help those along by
getting a little jiggle hopefully those
little doodles will help release any
trapped air bubbles because if there’s
anything trapped on the inside that’s
not going to work out very well for us
now you can see I made a ridiculous mess
pulling this stuff we’ve got leaks
coming through the sides we’ve got it
spilling over the top you can see this
puddle where the beaters have been
leaking silicone and right now it’s
extremely sticky we come back tomorrow
when it’s firmed up and rather than
having a sticky mess that whole thing
will peel right off and clean up without
any trouble at all
so our real-life pokeballs are
completely encapsulated in silicone
right now we really have no way of
knowing whether or not they turned out
so did we secure them well enough to the
base or are they going to float to the
top you’re going to join me in the next
video because tomorrow we cut them open
rip them apart and take a look at what
we’ve got thanks so much for joining me
for this experiment I’ll be looking for
you the next one doc you then
[Music]
you
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