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Casting resin
Posted by balta1 on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 5:34 PM
I am able to obtain casting resin from work but I'm not quite sure if it is the right one. Can someone tell me what "Cure hardness" is? It states that it is "75 Shore D" and tensile strength, psi at 5800-6800. It is called FDA Flexible Urethane. Can someone help me out here? They are from Mcmaster Carr under casting compounds.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, December 9, 2003 6:52 PM
Dure hardness is the hardness it sets to.. A low cure hardness is comparative to a bowl of jelly (English kind) while a high hardness is a lump of concrete. This is measured in shore. 75degrees shore is pretty hard, but flexible urethane is exactly what is says, flexible. Normally resins are usually epoxy or polyesther resins which cure harder. This means they're easy to sand etc. Flexible materials don't like being sanded, cut and tend to loose their paint because the paint isn't as flexible. Basically the lower the shore value, the softer and more flexible the resin. You won't have to worry about tensile strength, unless you want to tap bolt thread into it.

Before getting a couple of gallons of the stuff, try out a small sample and compare it to an offcut from a resin kit (the casting mold sprue-thinggy)..
  • Member since
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  • From: Midwest US
Posted by balta1 on Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:31 PM
thanks for the info!! I'll give it a try.

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 11, 2003 7:44 PM
That sounds like the urethane they use for flexible mouldings, the kind you bend around a curved surface.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 30, 2004 11:55 AM
I sugest you go to Sinair.com they have it all, but be sure what you are looking for and explain to them. JGM
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