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  • Member since
    January 2009
  • From: hamburg michigan
Mold making ?
Posted by fermis on Sunday, December 19, 2010 12:47 AM

 Has anybody ever tried using "Great Stuff" (foam/insulation) to make a mold from?

I made a display base, and rather than go through that headache again, I'd like to make a mold and cast a couple copies. I have done my homework on other options, but didn't find anything on "Great Stuff". I'd like to get by as cheap as possible........ya'll think "Hammer" is cheap.....I'd give him a run for for his nickel!!!Stick out tongue

TRM
  • Member since
    May 2010
  • From: Massachusetts
Posted by TRM on Saturday, December 25, 2010 9:02 PM

Fermis,

 

I have tried great stuff.  It will carve with razors fairly easy.  It sands too.  If you make a mold you may want to try spraying the mold with a cooking spray or some mold release 1st.  I use it at work all the time and it does not like to stick to PVC,  or 6 mil plastic.  I used it to make some ridges on one of my project I am working on.  Sprayed a little more than I needed and carved it to size. Smoothed it to the final with joint compound.

 

Good luck

Regards,

T

 

In Flanders fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place, and in the sky,
The larks, still bravely singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

~John McCrae

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