Experience-material polymorphus through the eyes of a polymer clay lover. Plastic ring polymorphus Polymorphus at home

Who does not know what polymorphus is, it is described in detail (site) and (section) - I will tell you briefly. Polymorphus is a unique material - a thermoplastic (the name of the substance is polycaprolactone), capable of becoming plastic and soft already at a temperature of more than 60-65 degrees (filled with hot water) and hardening when cooled. Thus, polymorphus can be easily used for modeling, creativity and various crafts.

One of its many advantages is its reusability. In other words, you can fill any polymorphus product with hot water an unlimited number of times and make a new one.

I present to your attention photographs of works from polymorphus, made by the happy owners of this material for creativity.

See the photo below:

Holders for cables

Figures - children's toys from polymorphus

Polymorphus masks

Has your favorite flash drive broken or worn out? It doesn't matter if you have Polymorphus! Create a USB flash drive of your own design - this one certainly cannot be confused with someone else's. :)

Plastic parts of keys break frequently. How to fix it? It will not work to wrap with electrical tape ... But to blind the missing from Polymorphus is a quick and effective solution to the problem!

This is a small part of what can be sculpted from polymorphus

still a back comb on a stick

In order to put things in order in the trunk, you can use polymorphus and make these hooks

This and more can be done from polymorphus!

You can purchase the material itself on the site polymorphus.rf with delivery throughout Russia.

P.S. Paralympic champions win gold medals thanks to polymorphus, making gloves and special equipment for sports from it.

I came across material with a wonderful name- polymorphus ..... Maybe it's not new for someone .... but I was off for 6 hours ......)) It looks like granules with a diameter of up to 4 mm, matte color, slippery to the touch. Youtube, which I immediately turned to said the following Having looked, I decided to try.

I note right away that the instructions said enough water with a temperature of 60C. It didn’t work. The balls became transparent and viscous only after I filled them with boiling water.


After that, I carefully took it out of the dish.


and having come up with a lot of ideas, I began to imposingly knead ... I got cutters, stamps, well, everything is shorter ...)))


A beautiful translucent mass, after two minutes it began to lose its transparency and flexibility, respectively))) It froze into a shapeless piece ....... Realizing the mistake, I steamed the piece a second time (the feature of the material is that it can be softened again!) And has already accelerated.
I decided to paint it with acrylic in a raw state - bummer.
Acrylic rolled in places and gave only a drawing (marble), but did not color the mass. That is, disadvantage number 1 - it is not friendly with acrylic in its raw form!


Well, since I've already smeared it, I decided to try toning. It turned out, acrylic draws on plastic, lays down like on baked polymer.




The effect of the finished translucent clay (only after 2 minutes!) That is, to create such krakazyabin with the effect of a stone is the right thing!
To paint, as I later found out, you can powder

The material can be rolled into a paste machine (only super fast!) And cut with a cutter. You can roll and stretch it into a film and threads that are very difficult to break! For example, the circle of the earrings familiar to us is 4x4 cm, it turned out to be 2a times lighter than the polymer one. I can consider this to be an advantage of the material, especially for those who decoupage or use polymer as a basis for painting. More wearable than polymorphic earrings (easier!).


No need to polish! The surface is initially waxy-glossy. Sanding and smoothing the edges is also easy. Only not into dust, but shavings.


The stamp is difficult to recreate. The mass sticks to the textured mat faster than it does not stick ... That is, the texture is not pronounced. But it is more than simple to mold products using mold (such as flowers, cameos). The edges are very clear! The material can also be used as a mold. The impression is wonderful.
I tried to make regular beads. Liked.
Fast and easy. without dust particles and stove.


After 2 minutes, I already tinted.


It turns out very soulful. The effect of beads is the same as for those that are sold in hardware in the category of "expensive" Krakazyabin, I made it as an example of stretching into a film, I think it can be used as fancy elements in pendants (only fix after baking, otherwise the element will not transfer the stove) or do curve spacers for beads, a la chips ...
A minute after toning, I was already making holes. I did it with a drill, you can use a hot needle.


I covered it with polymer clay varnish - I can note that the varnish fits and gave the usual gloss.


The bottom line. Polymorphus can be used by those who decoupage (the process of making products will accelerate significantly), who is engaged in painting, makes figures, stamps. You can paint the mass, I heard it is possible with ink ... but I have not tried to argue, I will not. It is very convenient for making ordinary beads of simple shapes or, on the contrary, intricate decors.
Advantages - ease of use, absence of toxic elements, breadth of application in addition to jewelry, lightness of the material, the ability to paint with acrylic, super strength!
The disadvantage, as for me, is a very fast solidification, not transparency (so it would be cool in general).
The material became a discovery for me and I can say that I need it in jewelry business ...

Another option for self-hardening plastic has appeared on the market - superplastic polymorphus. It is produced in the form of white crystals. The name speaks for itself: "poly" - many, "morph" - form (from Greek): polymorphus - "multiforme".

Shoplenta magazine figured out how and where to apply this superplastic.

It softens like wax with filler at +61 ° C. Cools down - at room temperature (20-22 ° C).

The material does not require special handling. To soften, pour into a container of hot water and wait until the granules become transparent. The material is ready to go. Then take out with a spoon or other object and create to your health! Cool the finished cast.

Important! The cooling rate depends on the air temperature. The faster you need to cool the product, the cooler the environment should be. Exit - put the impression in cold water.

There are two cons:

• temperatures above 56 ° C are destructive for products made from it;
• when heated to 200 ° C, it loses its ductility and strength.

Main characteristics:

• easy to use;
• instantly melts and hardens;
• does not stick to hands;
• attaches to surfaces;
• used many times without loss of properties and wasteless;
• colored, takes the desired shape;
• durable, multifunctional.

This will be discussed below.

Where is superplastic used

Physicochemical properties allow this plastic to be used everywhere: in science, and in hand-made, and in everyday life. Polymorphus - plastic for modeling fragments of objects or monolithic small crafts.

We create toys, decorations, decorative items

Needlework, or handmade, has always been relevant among the people. Someone creates things "for the soul", someone has a business or an urgent need. Consider the principles of making polymorphic products with your own hands.

To create simple toys, you can close up the finished hollow shape with colored polymorphus and cool.

To paint, you must first roll out the cake, pour a little special paint on the center (it is also on sale), knead it, wrapping the edges each time.

There are craftsmen who create dolls and mannequins from this miracle plastic.

Stylish bijouterie (necklace, earrings, folk style bracelet) is made of colored beads rolled from softened colored plastic. Then roll up the balls. Pierce the holes with a needle, string on the fishing line, attach the fasteners. Thus, sculpting flowers, leaves, geometric shapes, you can create hairpins, medallions, brooches. If the items are not painted, you can apply acrylic paints to the finished item. This painting will also look stylish.

Decorative items (artificial flowers for curtain holders, for example) are created according to the same principle.

Polymorphus is easy to cut, so it is possible to use a knife to correct the details of the object.

Such products from polymorphus with their own hands are easily made, often original, and therefore valued. Interesting things turn out.

Minor repairs in the household

Craftsmen use polymorphus superplastic in everyday life for troubleshooting, repairing household utensils: key head, door handle, stand.

To get a wrench of the desired diameter, just stick around the nut with softened plastic, pinch the edges to create an "ear", so that you can easily take the wrench later, let it cool. Then remove from the nut. As it cools down, the polymorphus becomes denser, fitting the nut. In a solid state, it does not break, does not crack.

This material does not conduct electricity. It is quite suitable for insulation, making screwdriver handles, other hand tools, switches, holders.

Attention! When insulating, check if the contacts are hot. Otherwise the insulation will melt.

RC Car Repair and Parts Creation

For those who are keen on this area, polymorphus is just a godsend. Prototyping parts, making "skeletons" or bearing parts, fixing parts and giving strength to any structures - an incomplete list of all possibilities in this area.

The polymorphic "cocoon" around the damaged arm will make it durable, and the broken suspension arm will be fully repaired with this material.

This super plastic is also applicable in the repair and tuning of real cars. For example, with his help, you can remake the central console of the furnace blower into a convenient panel.

Polymorphus and medicine

In this field, the use of polymorphus has also found embodiment. It is used when creating suture and bioimplantable products, making capsule shells, as an alternative to gypsum.

Where to buy polymorphus

Needlewomen are a unique people-)) we often use various materials in needlework that seem to have nothing to do with needlework. So today we will talk about one of these materials, namely polymorphus.

Polymorphus is also called super plastic polymorphus - it is a self-hardening plastic. They will be especially interested in needlewomen who are engaged in modeling. At the same time, in modeling, either polymer clay or a self-hardening mass (for example, gypsum) is usually used. And one and the second are not without drawbacks, for example, there are a lot of hassle with baking with polymer, if you do not withstand the temperature, then it may well become fragile or, on the contrary, overbake. And with self-hardening, the problem is fragility in the manufacture of small parts, it is very likely that they will break. And now a material appeared that is devoid of all the above disadvantages, while it can be used not only in modeling, but also in various modeling, and also used simply on the farm for repair and construction (for which, in principle, it was originally intended.)

Superplastic polymorphic properties

As the manufacturers declare in their advertising brochures, this material is non-toxic, biodegradable, and has a low melting point of about 60 degrees. That is, the material becomes completely “controllable” in terms of molding by simply heating it in hot water, after cooling it hardens and becomes elastic. Requires absolutely no additional devices to work with it. At the same time, one of the important features of the material is that it fits perfectly with various surfaces, be it wood, metal, or the same plastic. It can be painted in any color even at the stage of its melting, it is also easy to drill and cut. And the biggest difference from polymer clay is that polymorphus is much harder and can be reused!

P eraser polymorphus application

The material is sold in the form of white granules, packaged in cans or a hermetically sealed plastic bag.

To start working with polymorphus, you just need to fill the granules with hot water at a temperature of more than 60 degrees, while the material becomes more efficient at a higher temperature of about 90 degrees, but here it is important not to overdo it with heating, since at a temperature of about 200 degrees the material can lose its properties ... If you heat the polymorph with water, then while mixing the granules, make sure not to knead the water inside the resulting mass, it will be impossible to extract it from there later. It is not necessary to use water for heating, you can do this with a hot air gun.

After pouring, the granules acquire a transparent appearance and become plastic and can acquire almost any shape. Further, as it cools, the material begins to gradually harden (it becomes white) while it can still be corrected by the needlewoman until it hardens completely. If you didn’t have time to finish something with the polymorphus, and it’s already frozen, you can refill it with boiling water and continue working. If, on the contrary, you want to quickly get the desired shape, simply dip the polymorphus product into cold water.

When the polymorphic material hardens, its physical properties become similar to the most common plastic, the same hard and tough. It can even be drilled!

If you want to get a colored product, you can add any pigment directly to the melted granules, then the final product will turn out to be the color you need. Or you can simply paint the product with acrylic paint after hardening.

Practical application of the material

The practical application of the material is very wide, it is not limited only to molding, it is widely used in the repair of various products, for example, it can be used to make various handles, etc. hooks used to repair plastic products in the car and more. If, for example, you roll up a thin tube and roll it up in the form of a spring, then this spring cannot be broken with your hands or straightened (calmly holds an effort of 500 kg!)

A very important property: it is reusable, that is, it can be poured with boiling water infinitely many times and used over and over again.

Polymorphus can also be used as glue because it sticks to absolutely any surface (even to metal) and can bond very quickly and firmly, but of course there is a huge field for making various jewelry. Craftswomen often use it to create molds when working with polymer.

As a summary, the use of the material leaves only positive emotions, the material really meets the properties declared by the manufacturer and it is a great pleasure to create from it. The pluses also include the fact that it is absolutely harmless and even widely used for medical purposes. Therefore, it can be used even for decorating kitchen utensils in this it outperforms polymer clay, which is not recommended for these purposes.

Good luck with your creativity!