[ML-General] ?? casting silicone rubber & vacuum forming ??

[Phillip Showers]

Hi Faye
I'd say drop by to a public night, and see if you can talk to one of the
propmaking folks. I've got a bit of experience 3dprinting molds for
silicone parts, and I've made silicone molds for wax parts, so I have
opinions, but some of those guys are masters at this stuff.
Cheers,
Phil

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 2:36 AM Tyler Crumpton <tyler.crumpton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I know we've used smoothon to make silicone molds at the shop for one of
> Lowell's mold-making classes. I don't remember the formulations we used or
> anything, but it seemed that it would be very possible to do the stuff
> you're looking at using it for, even at pretty tiny detail/resolution.
>
> Tyler
>
> On Oct 24, 2016 8:13 PM, "Faye Lynn Thompson" <watersprite at charter.net>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>   I’m helping a local community robotics team, the FTC Browncoats.  They
> are all 12-17 years old.  The team has an idea to 3D print molds for
> silicon parts with 3D printed supports inside them.  We don’t know how to
> do that, yet.  So far I’ve found smooth-on.com which looks promising and
> very large.  Can any of you help us get a running start on this?
>
> They are also thinking about a new ways to build the robot’s shell
> including vacuum forming. Previously they’ve used sheets of acrylic.
>
> Thanks
> Faye Lynn
>
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