08-29-2020, 03:19 AM
(08-28-2020, 12:42 PM)cliffyk Wrote: Good to have you here, your injection molding knowledge will be helpful and it sounds as though you have reasonable expectations. My brother wrtked in molding for 40 years, for a company named Pixley-Richards in Plymouth MA IIRC.
His insight as to the physical characteristics of the cured resins vs. "real" plastics have been helpful to me...
I'm now specialising in short runs and using a rapid tooling technique, which involves machining steel bolsters then casting high temperature Epoxy. Up to now the master's I model have been produced using RTV & PU resins.
I'm hopeful that the Mars will cut my modeling time down to a fraction to what it would normally take.