Molding & Casting

Week #12

12th Class

Molding & Casting is an amazing assignament because you can modeling somthing, machine it and your fanally product is a replicated object!

Choosing a Molding product

Safe & security is the firs step to introduce into molding & casting, at the begining you must search the adecuate material to work with

1.- Kinds of molding products

2.- Other product to mold

Mishing our products

There are differents types of ruber plastics

4.- Molding with ligth blue ruber plastic-preparing the material

5.- Mixing the liquid

6.- Preparing the mold

Molding something for food

All the work you do here must be with sense and safety

7.- Mixing the Premium material series

8.- Preparing the piece to mold

9.- Results: light blue is for plastic pieces and light red is for food products

Milling a mold

There are some characteristics that you must have to review before milling, turn on: machine, vaccum, hand tools, etc. After that you will have a mold

10.- Preparing the software

11.- Preparing the machine

12.- Mold is milling OK

Final Product

Molding & Casting

13.- Plastic mold

14.- Results

LINKS TO DOWNLOAD FILES

MOld part file

Milling File

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