How do you make a mold?
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Topic: How do you make a mold?
Posted By: emorse2323
Subject: How do you make a mold?
Date Posted: March 04, 2004 at 3:45 PM
What are the steps in making a mold of something??
thanks
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Posted By: sam1
Date Posted: March 04, 2004 at 4:32 PM
what are you trying to mold? if its the trunk liner, you just mask off the part and lay fiberglass on it. if its the front, you build a frame first, then you stretch fleece over it. thats pretty vague, but here are some links that may help. https://web.njit.edu/~cas1383/proj/main/ https://www.e-kittan.com/fibre.html
Posted By: emorse2323
Date Posted: March 04, 2004 at 6:57 PM
Well Im not looking anything particularly just wondering how you would make a mold of like a body kit or dash pieces stuff like that
Posted By: audiomechanic
Date Posted: March 04, 2004 at 9:21 PM
look at the JL site in the turorials.there are a couple things in there on making molds.....one is called bed time for bondo. i dont remember what the other is called
other wise there are a lot of different types of molds you can make, silicone, rubber, foam, fiberglass, and so on. it kinda depends on how many times it will be used, what the part looks like you are making the mold of and what not.
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Posted By: sam1
Date Posted: March 05, 2004 at 9:52 AM
im going to try to build a body kit for my car. i think im going to use foam as a mold because ive heard its pretty easy to work with. i think before that im going to try some more simpler pieces because ive only built two boxes so far and im still trying to get the hang of it. boxes were pretty easy, but something like this is going to take a lot more time and skill. ive also read the bed time for bondo page and its a really good tutorial, so id recommed that as well.
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