boyago
Well-Known Member
So here is a little something I put together. I had done this before with the rubber caps that use a pipe clamp to secure the pipe but you have to tighten them supper hard to point where the pipe clamp starts to chew up the rubber caps. This way seems better so far. It's still not super easy to get the soap out but I haven't had to mess up the soap ends pushing and pounding on them from one side either. I have seen cut to fit liners that seem to work and a poster here cut a channel through the pipe that could be used to pry open the mold which seems simple and brilliant as well. This is just what I did.
I bought all of the parts at the local home depot except the stem valves which the local bike shop was more than happy to give me. They were even happier when I gave them some soap in return. They sell pre-cut 24" lengths of the pipe or you can buy a 10' section and have them them down to what you would like. You get a little less than 2lbs of soap per foot. There is your pipe, a hub joint with female thread and a clean out cap.
I bonded the hub to the pipe with Weld on 773 ABS glue.
I used gorilla glue expoxy to bond the stem valve into place after cutting the stem out of the inner tube from the bike shop. Making sure it fit into the clean out cap with enough material to bond the two together.
I let both pieces sit over night and the next day they were ready to use.
For this mold you would seal the end as you normally do and pour in through the threaded top end. making sure you do not fill the pipe section completely. You still need to lube your pip as you would any vertical mold. I have used both mineral oil and Vaseline. Both seem to work equally well but the mineral oil is easier to apply without a mess. You will also want to apply some plumbers tape to the threads on the clean out cap. I was out so I just drapped some plastic wrap over the mold and punched a hole in the canter and it worked well enough. I'll add a couple more pics and let me know if you have any more questions or would like me to clean this up into a better instruction. Right now I'm just kind of sharing.
Here's the last soap I did.
I bought all of the parts at the local home depot except the stem valves which the local bike shop was more than happy to give me. They were even happier when I gave them some soap in return. They sell pre-cut 24" lengths of the pipe or you can buy a 10' section and have them them down to what you would like. You get a little less than 2lbs of soap per foot. There is your pipe, a hub joint with female thread and a clean out cap.
I bonded the hub to the pipe with Weld on 773 ABS glue.
I used gorilla glue expoxy to bond the stem valve into place after cutting the stem out of the inner tube from the bike shop. Making sure it fit into the clean out cap with enough material to bond the two together.
I let both pieces sit over night and the next day they were ready to use.
For this mold you would seal the end as you normally do and pour in through the threaded top end. making sure you do not fill the pipe section completely. You still need to lube your pip as you would any vertical mold. I have used both mineral oil and Vaseline. Both seem to work equally well but the mineral oil is easier to apply without a mess. You will also want to apply some plumbers tape to the threads on the clean out cap. I was out so I just drapped some plastic wrap over the mold and punched a hole in the canter and it worked well enough. I'll add a couple more pics and let me know if you have any more questions or would like me to clean this up into a better instruction. Right now I'm just kind of sharing.
Here's the last soap I did.
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