More health friendly way of doing moulds?


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Hi,
I just tried to make a mould using the Unimould System, and was a bit surprised by the smell of the gel coat Smile

Are there any other ways to make a mould but not evaporating so much unhealthy stuff?

Can this work?
1) Doing the moulds based on resin infusion out of glass or carbon fibres?
2) Epoxy Mould Making system? maybe it does not smell...

Of course I use the mask and the room is ventilated, nevertheless its still very smelly....

Thank you in advance for the answer
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Warren (Staff) - 2/1/2018 9:11:05 AM
If it is the styrene smell that's the main issue, then switch to epoxy.  There are epoxy tooling gelcoats available as well as powder bound chopped strand or even better woven glass. You can add coremat or soric as a core to stiffen the mould too.

Hi Warren,
can you please advice on the filters to the full face mask? I plan to use 3M mask with A1 6051 gas filter and P1R 5911 particle filter. Is it ok?

1 more question with regards to the mould making based on resin. I will then use EG60 Epoxy Tooling Gelcoat. What should be the process if I want to use the woven glass?

Thank you, Max

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