Victoria soft line vinyl

Baby Talk
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Of course, always happy to share :slight_smile: I got the idea after seeing some people online using it to try to make “silicone” babies because it’s so much cheaper and you can make it different colors, levels of firmness, etc … and I thought I wonder if that would work to fill babies so their limbs don’t crunch anymore from glass beads! I researched it a bunch to make sure it wouldn’t harm the vinyl, found out it was a poly-vinyl. I bought some, filled a test limb, waited about 6 months, saw it had no issues and still felt amazingly squishy. I promptly ordered more and started filling any baby I was selling for more than $800 with it :slight_smile:

Here are my biggest tips:

  1. Have hot pads handy, plastisol is HOT, the limb you pour it into will burn your hands. Also have a container for limbs to cure that will hold them upright securely.

  2. Don’t fill an entire limb at once. I used it on a 7 month June asleep, I filled her entire limbs, put her limbs upright in a box so they wouldn’t fall over to cure. Her foot was slightly bent and the plastisol cured, you can’t get it out and her foot was stuck like that :frowning: Now I fill right above ankles and wrists, let cure and then fill the rest

  3. Do not pour glass beads into the curing plastisol for extra weight, they all fall to the bottom and your stuck with a crunchy limb that you can’t fix

  4. Wrap your limbs tightly with Saran wrap before filling, if you spill a few drops on the baby you will have to sand, scrape, etc … to get it off as it fuses to the vinyl.

  5. Plastisol starts curing quickly, if you use a funnel it will quickly clog, you can just pull the cured part out to clear the funnel and set it aside to use again later.

  6. I like to heat it in the microwave in a measuring cup with a pour spout, it makes pouring directly into limbs a lot easier.

  7. You can put your limbs in the fridge to soft set but don’t fridge cure the whole time, you’ll get moisture.

Those are the major things I can think of, but if anyone has more specific questions I’m happy to share what I know :slight_smile:

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