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I've searched for dived cup on Ebay and can only find tupperware.

So would sanding the surface with something to dull the surface work ?

Won't the metal arch inside the microwave ?

Try cleaning your mold with some worm oil , make sure there is no film or dirt in it. You should get shiny baits out of your aluminum no matter what skill level you are.

No release agent used at all , it's an aluminum mold. Is yours aluminum ? You should be getting shiny baits out of it.

Here's a better picture of the Trick worm mold I have , it's a hand pour.

Here it is

I have this mold, it's the 6.25" diamond tail.

You can use worm oil,thats probably the best thing to use, you can also use olive oil or vegetable oil but those will go bad in time. Like ipt said the worm oil will stink up the house so make sure to cook it outside. I have made a home made coffee,garlic,anise scent and they come out great. I've even experimentede making my own garlic paste to smear on my jigs.

Looks like 2 colors with either some pearl powder or hi lite powder added to it.

I do 2 color pours all the time, in order to get a good bond with the 2 colors you will need to pour the darker color almost immediately after you pour the white color. If you pour it to soon the colors will just blend together and you won't get that clean top line but more of a smudged or smeared line. Now if you wait to long your colors won't bond correctly and you have cold cracks, thats where your plastic has already cooled to much and neither color has bonded to each other and you can easily seperate the 2 colors by pulling them apart.I use Lee's pots and I use measuring cups. I would do some test pours with some scrap plastic and you should get a feel of how fast you gotta pour the 2nd color. If your using a pop mold you can heat it up a bit and that will give you a little more of a window to work with. Good luck and welcome to the club.

If I'm not mistaken that is a RTV mold from Lurecraft,not 100% sure.

I have made alot of 2 piece POP and resin molds with tiny appendages (sp) that fill up fine with the proper venting. Some molds don't even have to be vented depending on the size of the segment you are trying to pour. I would make the mold,seal it, then pour some plastic and see if the cavity fills, you can see where it would need to be vented if it did. I pour my plastic at a little higher temperature than normal to get it to fill certain molds.

+1 on Nova's comment.

Did you shake the crap out of your colors before you added them to the plastic, if your colors have been sitting for awhile they do settle, kinda like plastisol and its hard packing. I would make sure you shake them up very well.