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calgone	calgone posted 11 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 62	Hi, I am a new member here so I hope no one has asked this before. Working within a hospital we use Pre-Preg for all of our Carbon Fiber uses. The main reason for this is the quality of the end product and even thickness of resin. I was looking at making a mold but the mold needs to be heat resistant. Had a hunt around on the net and found this stuff “Mold Max 60” – High Heat Resistant Silicone Rubber Mold system. Has anyone tried this stuff before? Cheers.
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Brad 612	Brad 612 posted 11 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 2, Visits: 14	Hi I am looking for info on methods to make carbon fibre moulds to be used in the plastic rotational moulding process,we have fibre glass mouldings With flanges that would directly make the finished moulds in cf,the questions are what would be the best resin to use at high temperature and what would be a good finished mould thickness to allow for long life and fast heating in the process oven, any advice will be appreciated brad Tags Rotational moulding Edited 11 Years Ago by Brad 612
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pk_090	pk_090 posted 11 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 169	Maybe making your own thread would get a response quicker Brad? Back to the OP, I am intrigued what are the uses for CF in a hospital? Not sure on cost implications but i have heard metal moulds are usually heat resistant, but are expensive as they have to be machined away, and are usually only very large scale! Alex
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calgone	calgone posted 11 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 4, Visits: 62	We use Cf in the Medical Physics Department. At the moment I’ am changing over all the Acrylic setting pieces to foam filled CF for the Radiotherapy units. When they use Acrylic in any procedure they have to make a setting change, as the Acrylic soaks up some of the radiation. Using CF at 0.5 thick gives the same rigidity but does not need a setting change. We have a total of 7 units that need every thing changing over. I have made several Aluminium molds as per Koenigsegg Sport cars. They work really well but take a lot of time to manufacture and design. I have a machine shop within the Hospital with 3D machining, Solidworks and a large oven for the pre-preg. We use Pre-preg as the resin is guaranteed to be a precise thickness unlike wet lay. This may sound picky but it does make a big difference. I will carry on making Ally molds. All the best. Tags Medical Physics Department
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pk_090	pk_090 posted 11 Years Ago Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 47, Visits: 169	Geesh sounds like the hospital is well kitted out then! i wish i had those kind of facilities!
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