Hello from really sunny England, I could do with some help guys, could anybody on here tell me if it is possible to create resin infused MDF board with a metallic substance in the composite.  I am working on a project and am interested to know if it would be possible to add magnetic particulates to the resin before infusing the MDF.  And if so, would this be a costly affair on top of the resin infusion ie would your require different machinery etc???

Thanks in anticipation.

Robbie

I have never actually tried this so I don't know whether it would work or not, but in theory you could add iron powder to the resin to create a dielectromagnetic. There are 2 possible issues I can see though. 1 is that resin is obviously not magnetic, and therefore you are relying on the particles of iron powder to create the magnetism that you want. This means you need an iron powder that is quite pure, as impurities like carbon etc. will affect the magnetic field.