Five Ton Monkey Fabrication Shop Uses Smooth-On Materials to Create Face Shield Machine

Five Ton Monkey, a fabrication shop located in Albuquerque, NM usually spends their time fabricating props, set pieces and elements for immersive environments and various objects for the film industry.  However, when COVID-19 started to play a major part in everyone’s daily lives they took the time to produce face shields which would protect essential workers.

The State of New Mexico caught wind of their face shield production and contracted them to produce over 300,000 shields. To save time and create more of a fluid workflow, they developed special face shield production machines that incorporated elements key to the machines function with Smooth-Cast™ 300.

Five Ton Monkey’s favorite Smooth-On materials to work with are Smooth-Cast™ series urethane plastics, Task™ 15 for rotocasting, Mold Star™ Platinum Silicones for block molds, and Rebound™ Series for brush on molds.

To learn more about Five Ton Monkey visit: www.fivetonmonkey.com

Related Products

• Mold Star 15, 16 & 30

  1A:1B mix by volume, low viscosity platinum liquid silicone rubbers. No vacuum degassing needed.

• Rebound Series

  Easy to use silicone rubber that self-thickens for making brush-on molds

• Smooth-Cast ONYX Series

  1A:1B by volume, low viscosity urethane resin that cure at room temperature to a deep black, solid plastic

• Smooth-Cast 300 Series

  Ultra low viscosity, 1:1 mix ratio white liquid casting resins

• TASK 15

  Urethane resin with high impact resistance developed for machine rotocasting

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• Prototyping & Inventing

  High-accuracy & high-performance mold making and casting materials for the ultimate in accuracy everytime

• Woodworking

  Use a variety of mold rubbers and casting materials to create river tables and encapsulate natural wood art.