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Mould for car door

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By Bluebull - 11/9/2013 1:24:45 AM

Hey guys Smile

we started to brain about our first mold,.. a mold for a CFK door of a Mazda RX7 FD3S

and we found a lot of tricky problems..

here are some pics of the door

http://www.abload.de/img/img_5344l0q64.jpg


http://abload.de/img/img_5345v6rjg.jpg 

first step was to strip the door compleatly,..

after that we found some bad things,..

http://abload.de/img/img_5346exr0z.jpg


http://abload.de/img/img_5358s8r94.jpg


http://abload.de/img/img_534938ojm.jpg




how would you do a mold for it ? we have no idea, because, you get no carbon in this small finn..

next problem,.. the shape of the window frame,...

http://abload.de/img/img_5351cuq8n.jpg


http://abload.de/img/img_53478irir.jpg


here is a sketch about the frame shape,...

http://abload.de/img/img_5352pwris.jpg


after more than a hour of brain storming this stuff become rudimentary :/

here a brain storm sheet ^^ 

http://abload.de/img/img_5353gfqz6.jpg


we cut out the door frame... not really cut,.. we drilled the welding spots and removed the adhesive between all metal sheets without deforming any part... 

http://abload.de/img/img_5363i9qrp.jpg


http://abload.de/img/img_53600irqk.jpg






OK now we have the inner and outer side of the door,.. thats an easy mold,.. 

but the frame is tricky ! 

we want to use a (I dont know the englisch word for it, maybe its the same like in german - a lost core?) out of polystyrol foam ?

and we change the shape of this frame... 

http://abload.de/img/shape26d6p.jpg


what is the best solution to get this polystyrol core?

first an RTV positive mold, then a negativ mold and out of this mold the cores we need?

why diddn't we start with a small piece ? or some easy stuff lika a bonnet :/

ok now I was drwaing about 1.5h on this stuff ...



good night Smile
By Bluebull - 11/9/2013 11:19:36 AM

hi,

the idea was to leave the core in the frame, like a sandwitch Smile