casting rubber / urethane parts

[Derek cottissParticipant @derekcottiss41883]

I have a project which involves the need for a cast ‘rubber component ‘

i have no knowledge (other than u tube ) of whats really involved  any pointers please ?

 

anyone near Essex do this sort of thing ?

[Robin DuftonParticipant @robindufton85682]

What does the part look like and what is it for? I designed and built tools for a rubber moulding company so can likely answer any questions on that front.

Youtube should be able to tell you all you need to know for the basics.

[DC31kParticipant @dc31k]

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0830698691

[Ian ParkinParticipant @ianparkin39383]

Afew years ago i had a job to repair a pallet wrapping station which had a u section steel section bent into a large circle about 5ft dia on the floor ….into the section was a hard rubber which after 20 years was starting to deteriate so when the bearings holding the 7 ft dia disc floor were running on this rubber track it was vibrating like mad. particullary when a 1 tonne pallet was being wrapped

i chiselled all the old rubber compound out and filled it with a 2 part Polycraft DuroFlex 85 Polyurethane Liquid Casting Rubber which i got from MB fibreglass

it cured a treat and after 3 years now of daily use its still perfect

a new part from the maker was in excess of 2k so my £60 of rubber did an excellent repair

 

MB do allsorts of compounds

[Derek cottissParticipant @derekcottiss41883]

The object to cast is a rifle butt pad and a cheek piece actually batches of 10 for a target chassis system we make  ..

[Ian Parkin]

On Ian Parkin Said:

Afew years ago i had a job to repair a pallet wrapping station which had a u section steel section bent into a large circle about 5ft dia on the floor ….into the section was a hard rubber which after 20 years was starting to deteriate so when the bearings holding the 7 ft dia disc floor were running on this rubber track it was vibrating like mad. particullary when a 1 tonne pallet was being wrapped

i chiselled all the old rubber compound out and filled it with a 2 part Polycraft DuroFlex 85 Polyurethane Liquid Casting Rubber which i got from MB fibreglass

it cured a treat and after 3 years now of daily use its still perfect

a new part from the maker was in excess of 2k so my £60 of rubber did an excellent repair

 

MB do allsorts of compounds

yes been looking at them and waiting for some samples

[nigel jones 5Participant @nigeljones5]

you could 3d print them in TPU quite easily – low outlay

 

[nigel jones 5]

On nigel jones 5 Said:

you could 3d print them in TPU quite easily – low outlay

 

except the price of the printer of course

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