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Our epoxy mold came out great! Although this is a trial and error kind of thing so we're going to redo it. We need more silicone rubber to make a thicker and deeper mold. There were some gravity related issues where the mold and the epoxy mixture settled in weird spots giving this thing a sort of warped shape with some weird edges. We also were trying to some how fit the debris from all 109 tapes (or whatever it was) into the one mold. Our first attempt was to burn the VHS tape... which worked really well, but the ash polluted the epoxy mixture and gave it a cloudy brown look. Our next attempt will be just the magnetic tape, pieces of nukie boxes, and shredded up plastic bits and springs and screws and all that junk. The epoxy mold will be clear with nukie chunks floating in it. Suspended forever! We will update soon. This whole process is being documented...stay tuned! 

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Adriana Lee Lopez

What a wonderful way to honor the nukie (and its journey!) Can’t wait to see the final product

Amanda Foster

Very cool! If I may make a suggestion, maybe you could make a mural using a kinda Seurat-esk pointillism technique to make one big Nukie box to put the giant tape made of the plastic from the cassettes 🤷🏻‍♀️

Katy

Fascinating.

Rigmarole

Awesome! I know how unpredictable epoxy resin can be so hopefully it turns out well

Sir

redlettermedia Nukie Chunks TM

Marc

Giant tape suspending Nukie pieces is guaranteed to raise $120k USD for a children's hospital

Dennis Berent

I don’t know what the fuck you guys are doing but please continue

Manic Velocity

You guys work hard to make it look like you're working just hard enough.

Bugbear Grylls

If one Nukie VHS could go for $80k, imagine what a nightmarish, desecrated amalgamation of 109 Nukie VHS tapes would fetch. It'll break new ground!

Tom McGraw

this is such a cool project. can't wait to see the process and how it turns out!

dan-the-man-in-a-can

This is by far the most important thing happening right now.

The Real Zam

I think a warped giant VHS is a very appropriate fate for the shreds of #Nukie tapes.

Richard Young

The only news worth paying attention to today.

schopi

You have obviously lost your mind, guys......;-)

Carly

Nukie is death process

Nick Elrod

Time to start a Red Letter Arts and Crafts series? Or, call it: Red Letter Mixed-media? ... I'll see myself out.

Sean LaVista

Your Patreon dollars hard at work!!

Angi

This is actually really cool, but I hope that everybody is wearing good safety equipment especially because you’re dealing with strong chemicals and stuff. I’m assuming you all are because you’re not idiots. Very excited to see the finished product.

Joan Scott Brockie

Can't wait for the science narration with rubbly gloves and facémasquez to prevent nukie'ing ones lungs during the process ❤️

Alden Goldfinch

Hm. Thought for sure somebody would’ve suggested cutting up parts of the previous mold to use as filler for the next one so you don’t need as much silicone for it but here we are. Oh well

Lord Humungus

I just payed the minimum cause I wanta post some quality posts. BTW is it ok to scratch my bum and sniff my fingers?