Glove Mold Thickness Map, Not an Even Coat | RUUIPON

A glove mold fails when the wall is "even" in the artist's eye and starved in the hook. Spec a thickness *map*: face, undercut, lip, jacket land — each in millimetres — then measure a cut witness or a pin gauge on a hidden land. This is not the glove-versus-block chooser; that page already picked the glove. Here the glove already exists as the structure, and the question is where the rubber actually is. A 4 mm cheek and a 0.6 mm nostril is how the dump blows a hole. A fat even 8 mm with no extra on the jacket land is how plaster prints through.

RUUIPON builds mapped gloves in Bao'an, Xinhe Blvd, Shajing, since 2018. Prototype is 3–7 business days after CAD lock of the map, not of a vibe. Production is MOQ 20 pieces per design. Simple 3D is USD $50 when that CAD scope applies. Mix 1:1 or 10:1; platinum shrink typically about 0.1–0.3%. Steel/LSR *parts*: wydsilicone.com. Structure chooser: glove vs block. Brush sequence: brush-coat thickness.

Does not apply when the tool is a poured block or an open-back food tray, when you meant Shore A as a wall, or when you wanted a steel cavity. We would not "feel" production gloves into spec.

Four lands, four jobs

Face. Copies the master. Often a built 3–6 mm band after a thin detail coat. Starved type is a hole. Puddled wells are sinks.

Undercut. Rubber pulls away as it gels. Extra passes or a local pad. This is where gloves tear on demold.

Lip. The open back you will stretch over the jacket. Too thin and it splits; too fat and it will not seat in the shell.

Jacket land. The back that sees plaster or FRP. A little extra so the jacket does not telegraph. Still millimetres, not a sausage bead.

Shore 10A–20A is common for peel. It does not replace the map. Loaded sag of about 0.5–1.5 mm on a small skin is a jacket conversation; at statue scale it is centimetres.

The photo that would prove a map: cut witness on a dummy land with a millimetre scale, pin gauge in the undercut, jacket seated. A painted mask on a wall does not prove 4 mm.

flowchart TD
  A[Glove already chosen] --> B[Write map: face / undercut / lip / jacket land]
  B --> C[Detail coat, then build]
  C --> D[Pin gauge or cut witness]
  D --> E{Undercut at map?}
  E -->|no| F[Local pad, recast if starved]
  E -->|yes| G[Jacket on the land]
  G --> H[CAD lock, MOQ 20 path]

How we measure (method, empty results)

Method, not a named lot: after cure, pick hidden lands agreed on the RFQ. Pin gauge or a clean cut on a witness tab you designed into the lip. Record face / undercut / lip / jacket land. Caption any table as typical shop values until a real PO fills numbers. We will not invent millimetres from a photo.

ISO 3302-1 M2 is a rubber class on the dump if you spec it. It is not a glove-wall tolerance class.

CAD lock includes the map. The $50 3D, when that scope applies, is the master — the map is still shop work you approve.

A production glove you will recast next season also needs the map written on the traveler, not in a Slack screenshot. When the first skin stretches in a hot truck, the undercut lands go first. Measuring the stretched glove and "matching" it is how you lock a bad wall in. Measure the *witness tabs you designed*, then recast from the master. Tooling charge is not unrestricted ownership of the map CAD — say who keeps it.

Brush-coat millimetres (the first stipple) and glove-map millimetres (the finished wall) are easy to mash together on an RFQ. Coat 1 can be about 1 mm and still be correct; the finished face is the 3–6 mm band. If you only specify the first coat, we will not guess the jacket land.

Failure: even-looking glove, hole at the hook

Symptom: dump blows or the glove tears at an undercut; face looked opaque and "done."

Cause: visual opacity is not millimetres. Undercut thinned while the cheek built.

Confirm: pin gauge vs the map. If the hook is half the face, the map was never followed.

Fix: local pad if the grade will still bond, or recast. Do not raise Shore A to hide a 0.6 mm wall.

Typical shop values

Caption: typical shop values, not a named PO.

Maps we would not ship

We would not recommend an "even coat" with no undercut callout.

We would not recommend judging thickness by looking through the glove at a window.

We would not recommend a jacket on a 1 mm land.

We would not recommend replacing the map with a Shore bump.

We would not recommend cloning the glove-vs-block essay as this page.

Worked example: mask, 4 mm face, 0.7 mm nostril

PU mask, 220 mm, buyer said "4 mm all over." Dump punched the nostril. Pin gauge 0.7 mm in the hook, 4.2 mm on the cheek. We recast with a local pad to the map, plaster jacket. Prototype 3–7 business days after CAD lock of the map. $50 CAD applied because the nostril ID was not on the scan. Production MOQ 20 of that design.

If the dump is food, stop: a glove is rarely the right food tray. Open-back poured wells belong on the food path. Do not build a mapped glove, talc it, and then ask for a 177.2600 pack. Food trays are poured in a flask with a uniform wall you can weigh, not a stippled statue skin.

Mix-up: thickness = Shore

Shore is how the rubber feels. Millimetres are how much rubber is there. Related: mother-mold shell, contact.

What to ask when you're buying a mapped glove

• Four-land map in millimetres?
• How you will let us witness (tabs, pin gauge)?
• Dump kilograms — jacket yes/no?
• Recast from the sealed master, not from a stretched glove?
• After lock, 3–7 business days, then MOQ 20 / design?

RFQ copy-pack — glove thickness map

Paste into [email protected]:

Object: RTV glove with a thickness map, not an LSR/HCR part Map mm: face / undercut / lip / jacket land Dump chemistry and peak °C Jacket: plaster / FRP / printed File: STEP / STL / photos with a millimetre scale CAD: mold-ready OR USD $50 3D if that scope applies Prototype 3–7 business days after CAD lock, then MOQ 20 per design Who keeps the master

Send the four-land map, not "about 4 mm." We gauge the hook — not a blank quote request. Phone +86 135 3006 2969. Xinhe Blvd, Shajing, Bao'an. Shop since 2018.

FAQ

How thick should a silicone glove mold be? A face band commonly lands around 3–6 mm, with extra in undercuts and a defined jacket land. One even number is how hooks starve.

Can I check thickness by holding it to the light? Opacity lies. Pin gauge or a cut witness on a hidden land.

Does a thicker glove skip the jacket? No. Hydrostatic load still wants a mother mold. Extra 10A rubber sags.

Is the map in the $50 CAD? USD $50 when we must model the master. The map is part of CAD lock you approve. Clock is 3–7 business days after that lock.

What's MOQ on a mapped glove? 20 pieces per design after the witness. Recast from the sealed master, not from a stretched first glove. Mix 1:1 or 10:1.