Xencast Flexible Polyurethane Rubber


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Hi all,



I've got a few questions regarding the 'new' product 'XenCast Flexible Polyurethane Rubber' advertised on your website.

Basically I'm making a couple of moulds with the intention of casting 'Vac-Cast Epoxy Resin' into them,  what I need to end up with are two perfectly reproduced tooling plugs for vacuum forming my final parts into ABS plastic.



The following image will hopefully explain in greater detail my procedure.  I've recently used a product from 'Smooth-On' called 'OOMOO 30',  but had a disastrous result.  I must admit,  as good as it seems to be I just hate working with it.  Here's what my original mould box looks like with my plug secured in the base,  I then poured the silicon rubber into the mould box .........  it was an awful lot of work,  trying to mix what was a consistency of partly molten lava,  and the impossibility of pouring made the job needlessly difficult,  the result was a failed pour and a very badly formed mould  !  >>

 



Pouring the mix in a thin stream in a low corner was just impossible,  I almost had to resort to 'trowelling' it in ! >>

 



When I demoulded the following day,  it wasn't too bad,  but strictly speaking an appalling result.  Not something I would want to cast resin into that's for sure .........  I put it down to a good learning experience  >>





Because the silicon rubber wasn't 'fluid' enough,  full coverage of my plug wasn't achieved,  leaving large voids and air pockets  >>

 









So basically,  my question is,  would that 'XenCast flexible Polyurethane rubber'  be an alternative to OOMOO 30  ?

I've been looking at the 'XenCast PX30',  it seems to have the same characteristics as the OOMOO 30  ( both Shore A of 30 ),  how will it react to Vac-Cast Epoxy Resin being poured into it  ?







To further explain my situation my entire procedure is here >  Headlight mounting bracket moulds
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Thanks for explaining that Richie  Wink  I kind of suspected that,  as the 'LOT' or batch number does have 'CS25' written on it.


While I'm here,  as I'm still doing a little research ........  and in particular ( as I've now moved away from a 1:1 mix ratio )  that even me can work out !  BigGrin  I'm now faced with a 100:5

So just to keep it simple for an idiot like me who actually detests arithmetic as I've never been any good at it,  in layman's terms that translates to a 100 parts of silicone to 5 parts of catalyst, right ?




So how do I work out how much catalyst I need if I know I need 2,000 grams of silicone to fill my mould ?

Is it as simple as dividing the 2,000 grams of silicone by 100 to get 20,  and then multiplying that 20 by 5 to get 100 grams of catalyst  ?

The problem with me being bad at maths,  is I don't actually trust my calculations   Whistling 









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