After roughly 36-48 hours in the mold curing… We need to tap in screw drivers and even chissels evenly around the perimiter of the mold to start the "break". Once cracked, the plates must be lifted gently and directly vertical. Some pieces stick to their pins. Others stay stuck in the top layer.
That top plate is set over a shallow bucket. Using a mallet and wood dowel thet are tapped through the holes gently. The ones on the pins are gently turned and lifted straight off.
Now you have some very ugly looking pieces of plastishit…

First step is to run them up a drill press to clear the center of the tube to clear the resin that may have seeped in there…

Next , were gonna grind off the flash from the mold on a belt sander… 320 grit…

From there we give them a hand sanding with 400 grit and then 600 grit… After that we move to our buffing wheel . Using white rouge of roughly 1200 grit we knock off the rough spots.

Now since we are making these in bulk we have to really polish them out the rest if the way in bulk. We use a vibrator bowl with wooden pegs and two measured scoops of 3200 grit polish specially formulated for that machine…