Ok, I'll give it a try to post something in this thread to keep it alive. We will see if this does make sense for the future.
Latest project:
Casting mold for a rubber seal for a mast of a sailing boat. We did this before but by covering a milled core with layers and layers of natural rubber. Problem was that this material is not UV stable and starts to get brittle over the years. So as a new trial we decided to make a mold and to cast this from 2K Silicone based rubber.
Unfortunately the dimensions of the mold exceeded the building space of the UM2 to it had to be divided in parts. 6 parts for the outer mold, 4 parts for the core. Total printing time about 150 h, material is Firetruck-Red PLA from Fabberdashery.
some pics of the previous one we made to show the idea behind...
Edited by Guestmessed up the pics... damn..
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This is not the latest print, no time to post everything, but one I like:
Printed frame for broken mirror:
Some explanations in french on the fablab site (with more pictures, that make the whole process undertandable I think):
http://chantierlibre.org/2015/05/01/un-miroir-casse-7-x-plus-de-miroirs/
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