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Originally posted by mooshld View PostMake a good, cheap, upgradeable sheet plastic vacuum former
Not sure if its this sort of thing, but could do the trick.Tired of buying cheap plastic crap? Now you can make your own!
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Make a good, cheap, upgradeable sheet plastic vacuum former
Not sure if its this sort of thing, but could do the trick.
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I seem to remember a story about a girl losing most of her fingers trying to make a cast of her hands.
She hadn't realised how much heat fibreglass/resin gives out as it sets and hadn't planned ahead how she was going to get her clasped hands out of the bucketful of resin.
Must have been pretty horrific.
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looks like back to my day jobs then.
i'll try the suggestions out.
cheers
css_jay99
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Yes, injection moulding is expensive as the tooling costs are very high.
I think you can probably do something with a rubber mould and then use that to cast resin.
Latex & Gelflex Moulding - Casting & Modelling - Model Shop - Fred Aldous
Casting Resin - Casting & Modelling - Model Shop - Fred Aldous
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Originally posted by zeitghostMmmm.
Injection moulding.
Think in the >£10k region for that sort of thing.
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good thing I hovered on that link first ! before I lost my job!
Originally posted by TestMangler View PostA clue of what you're tring to do would be helpful. Is it to make a full scale model of a tank or to manufature your own Mr Potato Head ?
Making moulds of small objects is best done with fibreglass, which you're not interested in
1) A small tray the size of a keyboard
2) A cup holder a certain shape ...
basically the starting points will be :-
1) making a cast/mould of an existing object
either by (a) pressing an existing object against a putty like substance to make imprints that will then harden up
or (b) using my hand to fashion a putty like substance that will then harden up
2) Then pouring some form of material or liquid into that cast to harden up
3) Then pulling that hardened object out of the cast and then shaped with something like a dremel ......
I dont know much about fibre glass and I only objected to it assuming it was going to be something like laying down some sort of mesh and laboriously slapping glue over it ....which is kind of time consuming .....
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Originally posted by css_jay99 View Posttooling for plastic mouldings
e.g. also to creating moulds of existing objects
css_jay99
You might do better to look at a 3D printer.
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