Re: [gingery_machines] Re: Shaper patterns for sale on ebay

 

On 4/2/2011 12:11 PM, James Early wrote:
>
> From my expperiance you would have to use fine celled urathane rather
> than large celled styrene or a combanation of them to produce fine
> structure moulds. Styrene is very large celled and would make a light
> basic structure but the detail would be very coarse like anything made
> with styrene foam. Urathane has a much finer cell structure for fine
> detail but has very low resistance to impact requiring some form of
> moulded hard resin skin like used in fiberglass to provide the finish
> detail. So foam moulds would require several forms of material to
> provide both shape and detail.
>
> JWE
> Long Beach, CA
>
I thought we were talking Gingery patterns. Pink or blue foam would be
fine for this.

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