Vac-Cast Epoxy resin ........ what have I bought !?

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TURK	TURK posted 9 Years Ago HOT Topic Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 101, Visits: 662	Hi folks, As per the thread title ........ I'm not sure if what I have bought from EC will be fine for what I am trying to accomplish. I purchased some 'Vac-Cast' Epoxy casting resin as I read it was ideal for a tooling plug as it was an aluminium filled epoxy casting resin resistant to heat. I've searched on the forum on how to use it ( and on YouTube ), but can't find anybody that has used it ! I did find however, many casting tutorials on the net but they were for liquid Latex and others. Am I to assume it's exactly the same procedure ? I have also read some of the tutorials on here, but the guide very quickly deviates to mould construction for the use of vacuum infusion for carbon fibre parts. I simply need to pour the mixture into a vacuum formed part. Leaving me with a 'male' plug so I can vacuum form many other parts just like my original. Any information greatly received as I'm really stuck as to which direction I need to go. Thanks guys. TURK Tags Epoxy resin plug tooling Vac-Cast
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TURK	TURK posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 101, Visits: 662	Thanks Matthieu What I'm hoping to do now is, make my plugs the exact dimensions required for the part, and cast a female mould for vacuum forming. As there are 3 interlocking parts to complete the headlight assembly. I did try the male plug approach, wasn't very successful unfortunately, as the shape required was causing issues with the form. I'm basically making a female mould of these > Headlight mounting assembly A 'How To' video on YouTube I think would be very popular. I have watched quite a few of your videos already actually ........ I particularly like the Carbon fibre skinning of the Iron Man masks, brilliant stuff ! I did also notice your English is very good ....... you're Belgian are you not ? In that case ....... Salut ! TURK T4 Concepts Edited 9 Years Ago by TURK
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Matthieu Libeert	Matthieu Libeert posted 9 Years Ago HOT Post Details
Group: Forum Members Posts: 955, Visits: 3.4K	haha I'll do my best to take that as a near project then have some topics ready for that Vac cast epoxy Nice to hear you liked that Iron man video! Correct, I'm from Belgium, was a bit difficult in the beginning but you kind of get used to it to talk in english after a while. Still make some mistakes now and then but don't care about that anymore "Salut" or "tot de volgende" I'm from the dutch part of Belgium near to the French border, But I fluently speak french, dutch and a bit of english I guess :p Matthieu Libeert Founder MAT2 Composites X Sports website: www.mat2composites.com
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