Post by robbie on Jul 6, 2017 17:45:39 GMT -5
Hoping for help with 2 questions. I have made 2 different molds now to cast red balls onto stings for leather gloves( like the 2nd pic). The pic below is my latest before I actually made the 2piece mold.
1st issue: I think I need to make a NEW mold with the balls just mm away from the edge of the mold because as it is now I (obviously) get serious bleed into the string which I don’t want. Is there anything that can be applied to the string so resin won’t soak into the string? Maybe coating a few mm in on the string with resin before I put the string into the mold? Or am I right that I just have to make a new mold with balls closer to the edge.
2nd issue: When I pour into the mold I created from on the pic, I wanted make sure the resin flowed to all 3 chambers so I made the vent. Did I make the vent wrong? When I pour the resin into the top, the resin doesn’t want to flow downward (without some force) even though there is no blockage from chamber to chamber so I’m not sure what I could do on a new mold to make the resin flow more smoothly? As of now the “force” I use to get it to flow is injecting the resin with a syringe and then putting the syringe at the vent hole to pull the resin through the mold.
Thanks for any help that can be given.
1st issue: I think I need to make a NEW mold with the balls just mm away from the edge of the mold because as it is now I (obviously) get serious bleed into the string which I don’t want. Is there anything that can be applied to the string so resin won’t soak into the string? Maybe coating a few mm in on the string with resin before I put the string into the mold? Or am I right that I just have to make a new mold with balls closer to the edge.
2nd issue: When I pour into the mold I created from on the pic, I wanted make sure the resin flowed to all 3 chambers so I made the vent. Did I make the vent wrong? When I pour the resin into the top, the resin doesn’t want to flow downward (without some force) even though there is no blockage from chamber to chamber so I’m not sure what I could do on a new mold to make the resin flow more smoothly? As of now the “force” I use to get it to flow is injecting the resin with a syringe and then putting the syringe at the vent hole to pull the resin through the mold.
Thanks for any help that can be given.
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