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Edward	Edward posted 10 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 13, Visits: 539	Hi, professors, I have a question how to cut the cost of 120°C composites tooling system. the dimensional accuracy we hope will be ±0.5mm or ±0.2mm。the part what I want would be used in general industry: car,train,boat,sport,medical,plane,..... I don't want to use tooling epoxy block to make the master mould, and also I dont want to use the epoxy Tooling prepregs to laminate the tooling. this tow metirials is too expensive and the process cost a lot. do we have any other choice? beijing of China Edited 10 Years Ago by Edward
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f1rob	f1rob posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 237, Visits: 4.8K	couple of options but it depends a lot on what the item is as to determin how to go about it
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Edward	Edward posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 13, Visits: 539	thanks.ok, in my mind I can not find out a gelcoat up to 120°C, it seems that the tooling material will be epoxy resin and reinforcement. the master have to be machined, polished,gelcoated, we can get a master mould, the tempereture is up to 50°C.it means that the tooling matetial could initial cure at 50°C then post cure at 120° out of the master mould. beijing of China
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ChrisR	ChrisR posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 363, Visits: 3K	The thing is that the tooling resin/prepregs you are talking about are designed to meet this exact requirement i.e. initial elevated temp cure at 50-60deg then are dimensionally stable for an off the mould high temp post cure
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 10 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 7.9K	We don't yet have a high temperature tooling system. Our unimould goes upto 90C officially. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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Edward	Edward posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 13, Visits: 539	these month , we make tooling and part. I have used EC's Uni-Mould system at 120℃ prepregs process, it seems no problem. beijing of China Tags 120 preregs unimould
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Davidpetty1988	Davidpetty1988 posted 8 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 26, Visits: 89	Hi have been looking for the same thing found a company called gurit they got some good gear no prices though if u contact them let me no please hope it was helpful Dave
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Edward	Edward posted 8 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 13, Visits: 539	a big company, I know them in composites area, but I have not touch them. beijing of China
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Warren (Staff)	Warren (Staff) posted 8 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Administrators Posts: 2.5K, Visits: 7.9K	We have had reports of people having success using the Uni-Mould at higher temperatures, especially with smaller moulds in which the parts cure quickly. However, some customers have also had problems exceeding the recommended temperature. Common problems can include blistering due to trapped air, print through due to softening and also rapid wear and break up of the moulds. So we would always recommend staying within the recommended limitations to be on the safe side. if you choose to go higher, you would need to take great care to balance the risk of damaging the mould. We are investigating if we can reasonably take the Uni-Mould to higher temperatures as well as we are looking into and testing higher temperature tooling products to provide a more reliable solution. As soon as we have a better solution for higher temperatures, we will be sure to let everyone know. Warren Penalver Easy Composites / Carbon Mods - Technical Support Assistant
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