Flanging / barrier materials - what do you use?


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Bonobo
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What's the material for making flanges in split moulds?

polypropylene, fluted correx, mdf, ....?
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Matthieu Libeert
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Hi, Ive use polyprop in the past and plexi, seen some guys making flanges with a hard cardboard as well, I guess you could 
use anything you want as long as it is a bit heatresistend and not to porous. Make sure it is hard enough so you can wax it 
properly, MDF sounds a bit to porous to me and would be a bit harder to wax mouldrelease on

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