When you have a polyester resin mold, stuff sticks to it.
When you lay the fiberglass into the mold, and let it set, it sticks to the mold. This is not good. You want the part to pop off the mold...
...you gave. I will keep and utilize it. I hope Copper will also use this for others with a question about mold casting. I have decided exactly where my dividing line will be. I had hoped that it would b...
Hi, I have made a model of a racetrack and want to make a mold so i can duplicate it several times. At that point I believe I can then carve and perfect it. Then I want to send it to a plastics compan...
I am keen to get some technical tips on the process of making a latex mold of a life-size clay figure. I am needing to make around 3 casts of the clay work and believe that a silicon primary and resin...
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I'm taking a college course in Sculpture and I need to make a mold for a Tsungite block or Japanese wood block. The only thing is I don't know how...My teacher said that I would h...
...'m sure someone else in this group will be more familiar with Alginate. I've made quite a few molds for hands with plaster, and you will need to make a two piece mold. Be sure to thoroughly ...
where is information on silicone mold? I was wondering ifI could make a mold out of silicone and use it to form ... silicone.
There are some free articles to downloat at http://rtvmoldmaking.com/cgi-bin/p/awtp-downloads.cgi?
d=rtv-mold-making
This is the site for RTV Mold Making.
...hime in incase anyone else is seeking this info.
There are two different silicone rubbers used to make molds: TIN (Condensation) Silicone & PLATINUM (Addition) Silicone.
Looking at shelf life,...
i have a rubber mold but i want to put something in the middle if it what can i do
Yes, I've done it several times. A mold release is more than enough. A small test sample would bear that out. That said, I find silicone a far better material for this purpose.
Greetings, If someone; myself, for arguments sake, wanted to take a mold of a portion of a piece of furniture, and did not want any substance involved to impair either the wood's finish, or the a...
Please point me to help in making a mold of an object that is about 25' long x 9'widex8' high . Would like to be able to make at least 20 or so duplicates of my piece. Help the rookie p...
hi kjoe,
do u have any idea if there is any mold maker company in Paphos? I'm planning to work in Cypus and my background is in moldmaking (plastic injection, diecasting) I mean complex molds....
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I want to make a casing for a latex mold using epoxy resin and fibre glass matting. What would anyone suggest as a suitable release agent between the latex and the epoxy resin?
Many thank...
If you're looking for a book - related to SPFX, but REALLY informative about many mold making techniques & casting too - here is a brand new one on the market well worth the $ 45 investment c...
Making polyester casts from silicone molds, using laminating resin @3% catalyst/mass.
It has been suggested that 1% catalyst might help, firstly to slow the setting so that the cooler resin at the ...
I do custom molds in just about every medium. You can reply here or send me a PM and I'll get back to you.
Judy
looking for american eagle plaster of paris mold the eagle has wing spand
you need to make a silicone mold off the sculpt;
once you have the mold then you can do what is called roto-casting (sometimes also referred to as sluch casting) where you mix your resin and pour int...
1/2" is all that is required as a blanket mold, brushed-on mold, or sprayed-on mold; you can certainly go thicker, but it's just more money tied up in the mold.
I like thinner and rely on...
take it one step at a time; do you have someone lined up who will make the mold of your face & does that person have experience taking a lifecast mold off a human model?
Your options for materi...
Molds
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There are a number of web sites with instructions on making rubber molds. Your first choice is if you can allow part lines on the finished object. If not you need to go with a brush on rubber and crea...
I will cast as many as I can till the mold gives out, since I'm using latex I might get 20 cast's.
soft stone. A two piece mold with a funnel to pour the metal into the carving which was bound together. The metal was then poured into the mold. Upon cooling the cast piece was 'pulled' from...
...ve gone to stores that sell the resin but no one could tell me how to use it.. I cant find a big enough mold of a star so I was told to make one out of starafoam wrong spelling sorry.. then make a mol...
Tin cured silicone is not affected by sulfur in clay. Any tin cured silicone should work just fine as a mold rubber. If the sculpture is in soft clay it will be damaged by the mold process, however, o...
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