Hello people.
My first post apart from introductions and typically for me and forums it starts with a request for help. However I am likely to be hanging around for a while (I promise, deodorant and clean undies at all times) as I do not generally meet crafty people and am sure there is much in my work and experience that can prove useful to others as well. Not including medication
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Right then...I have undergone a learning curve. Steep and high it was. As a souvineer of my efforts I have a LOT of cured silicone that represented the best ideas I had at the time...the project has been an ongoing evolution of mould construction amidst other things. There must be around three hundred quids worth of the stuff, just sat there. Now I can re-use it by chopping it up into very small bits.
This is where the fun begins. I popped a lump of it into a food processor...instead of chopping it up into little bits it simply bounced around the lump of silicone. I even thought I heard it laughing at me through the noise of the machine.
I tried grating it. Silly move, I knew it wouldn't work, and it didn't.
I enquired about one of those garden waste machines...chuck branches in one end and woodchips spit out at the other...but seems like it snaps, breaks and mashes as much as actually cut. And you can't snap silicone.
So now I am looking to cut it by hand. Big blocks of it into tiny little bits...
...it will take me at least a week of proper long days spent in a world that has shrunk to little bits of chopped up silicone...hour after hour...day after day...I would like to forgo thr experience, but theres too much money locked away in it.
So can anyone save my sanity by suggesting ways and means to convert blocks of silicone into tiny bits of silicone? And please feel free to be silly as well...humour more than welcome in my drudge fuelled life at present. At least I can hold a party when its over...and I am on day release from the local psychiatric unit....
My first post apart from introductions and typically for me and forums it starts with a request for help. However I am likely to be hanging around for a while (I promise, deodorant and clean undies at all times) as I do not generally meet crafty people and am sure there is much in my work and experience that can prove useful to others as well. Not including medication

Right then...I have undergone a learning curve. Steep and high it was. As a souvineer of my efforts I have a LOT of cured silicone that represented the best ideas I had at the time...the project has been an ongoing evolution of mould construction amidst other things. There must be around three hundred quids worth of the stuff, just sat there. Now I can re-use it by chopping it up into very small bits.
This is where the fun begins. I popped a lump of it into a food processor...instead of chopping it up into little bits it simply bounced around the lump of silicone. I even thought I heard it laughing at me through the noise of the machine.
I tried grating it. Silly move, I knew it wouldn't work, and it didn't.
I enquired about one of those garden waste machines...chuck branches in one end and woodchips spit out at the other...but seems like it snaps, breaks and mashes as much as actually cut. And you can't snap silicone.
So now I am looking to cut it by hand. Big blocks of it into tiny little bits...

So can anyone save my sanity by suggesting ways and means to convert blocks of silicone into tiny bits of silicone? And please feel free to be silly as well...humour more than welcome in my drudge fuelled life at present. At least I can hold a party when its over...and I am on day release from the local psychiatric unit....
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