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Old 09-17-2013, 04:14 PM   #1
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what resin and release agent do you use for your panel forms to hand form a panel there was a thread on here that showed the guy casing body molds for metal work but i cant seem to find it now. thanks
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Old 09-20-2013, 06:40 AM   #2
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Hand formed panels are just that, hand formed ie hammer and a bean bag for most anything curved and snips and shears to cut to shape.
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I use cast for fishing lures and I was thinking something along the lines of finding guys who make the custom metal bodies making a press mold and cast a hard plastic body but its hard to find those bodies and people to let borrow them

haven't worked any yet but going to make an attempt real soon so I don't know the exact properties and attitude of the materials but couldn't we just he the styrene to a flimsy sheet like state or panels and stick them to the inside of a lexan body causing a positive cavity to form a hard body of that particular lexan body???

or something like this with the lexan and use the alumalite original hard cast resin

How to squish mold

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I use cast for fishing lures and I was thinking something along the lines of finding guys who make the custom metal bodies making a press mold and cast a hard plastic body but its hard to find those bodies and people to let borrow them
You use cast fishing lures for a mold release agent?

Anyhow, to answer the question, my experimentation with resin forming parts is minimal and admittedly a failure

I used this stuff as a release agent.
Mann Ease Release® 200 & 205 Product Information | Smooth-On

I can confidently recommend the release agent I used because it was about the only part of the process that worked as it should have

The resins from that website worked pretty well also... If you make a decent mold




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Not sure which thread you were referring to that you can not find, but here are a few....

Body forming

Alumilite casting resin

Carbon Fiber Tutorial (Plug, to Mold, to Part)
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I talked to thx my comment has no use here but my original was incomplete on my part I do a lot of molding processes. ..peanut oil or industrial thru alumalite products....before casting put layers of it on let it dry in between for best results if ur ising a metal compound for you're filling resin don't worry it won't stick..or at least iy shouldn't if ur using poly mold
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