Polydoh moldable Plastic 16oz tub (Natural) [Polymorph, plastimake]

A couple of the raking fins broke off of our freezer ice maker. It's GE brand so they don't sell individual parts and a new one would be over $100. Ridiculous to replace it just for two small plastic pieces. Looked at sugru first and didn't like what I read. Took a shot in the dark trying this and it worked awesome.I just used about 1/4 cup of beads into ~150 F water (use teflon as it doesn't stick to that as easily when melted) molded a thin piece and just stuck it right onto the ice maker as you can see in the picture. I waited about a couple minutes for it to start stiffening up a bit but as soon as it did, I cut out the parts I needed with an exacto knife. Really do not have a lot of leeway before it hardens fully and by the end of cutting out the parts, it was pretty difficult to do so - about a minute or two of time to make your cuts and shape as needed; that's it.But once done it was rock hard and knew it would work for my needs. Won't win any beauty pageants but tested it out and it worked perfect. As they say, 'if it looks stupid but it works - it's not stupid'.Can't wait to figure out some other repairs this could be used for. Awesome stuff.

I'm horrible with things like clay and I've never used this or any other brand before but I found it very easy to use. I suggest boiling your water, then pour it over the amount of polydough you're going to use in a small glass dish, and let it sit for 2 minutes (give or take). You want the entire bead of polydough to become activated by the hot water but you don't want the water to start cooling down before you begin molding. Try to get it in the general shape you need first and then once it begins cooling you can kinda work out a few kinks. I haven't tried reshaping once it cooled so I don't know if this works very well, but I think as long as you don't need to reshape a large amount it would be easy. The reason is that boiling water would have a hard time reaching the middle of something with many layers.

I have used different brands of thermoplastic like this (polymorph style) in the past. They all seem to be fine. This particular brand has smaller beads which seem to transition from hard to pliable better than the others I have used. It is interesting that it is made in Poland -- I am happy to support a Polish industry if the product is good, and it seems to be.The trick I have found to working with this type of moldable plastic is to keep a constant temperature water bath going. Heating and cooling water all the time is tedious and often it is too hot or too cold. I am using a lab hotplate which can hold the temp anywhere from 20C - 550C, so that is beneficial. Most kitchen-style hotplates are tough to get a steady low temperature, so your experience will vary based on that. If needed, you can set a bowl of water inside a pot of water and try to regulate a constant temperature with that.At the rated 'morphing' temperature of 150F/63C I have no problems putting my hand in the water and it does not burn me. It is not pleasant, but anyone who cooks regularly should have no issues with it for short periods. Monitor kids though -- they can hurt themselves and freak out and knock the hot water over and then it will a big deal -- I am sure you know this anyway, but I thought I should mention it.

It was a little difficult to keep hot enough to mold for my 12 year old but it’s still a cool product

Polydoh is a super amazing material! I guess, most of negative reviews stem from the problem that people don’t read the description thoroughly and expect it to stay soft for hours until baked, like modelling clay or something. No, this material stays soft until it cools below 60°C. Then you can reheat it and reshape it as many times as you want.In thin layers, when cold, it remains moderately flexible, similar to HDPE. But bending it back and forth will never break it, it will never grow that “fatigue” crack line. This is great for making removable things that click onto something, such as cellphone or tablet holder/tripod.A separate positive experience to mention was the exceptional attention to customer that Materialix (USA) has shown. Marcin, the CEO of the company himself, was kind enough to promptly, the same morning, address my specific questions on Polydoh solubility in solvents and certain aggressive chemicals. This was beyond my expectation, as well as delivery to Canada in 8 calendar days instead of anticipated 15.5 stars well deserved! Thank you, Marcin @Materialix (USA)!

Okay, so I did not use this for its intended purpose. I bought it to play with for a Harry Potter program I was going to do, to see if we could use it to make wands, but then I decided a bunch of boiling water and young kids was probably not a great idea, so I went with Worbla for that instead. However, I needed a bunch of mini eyeballs for a Harry Potter potions program and had been having trouble finding round ones that didn't have stems coming off the back and were not googly eyes and would be small enough to fit in mini potion bottles, and these beads worked perfectly to make tiny eyeballs! So if you're looking for tiny eyeballs... :)

I was really excited to use this, but sadly it is only okay. I dislike that it dries super fast. Right when I got it out of the boiling water it became hate within three minutes. I hate to say its a waste of money. The only cool part is you can reuse it.

This is a really neat product, kind of like a hard Plato. I like the fact that procedure can reuse it just by pouring hot water over it. Are used to feel in a hummingbird feede, so that I wouldn't use as much sugar water