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Article #2161Re: Help with release agents needed
From: Tapio Linkosalo
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:16
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 07:16
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The best release agents you find in shops selling glassfibres and resins. Also, a local boatmaker might help. There are waxes made especially for mold release purposes. You add 2 - 5 layers of these, letting each layer dry well and polish it before next. Shimonez (sp?) car wax works quite well too, but avoid car wax with silicone, if you intend to paint your fuselage. There are also teflon release films, that you apply quite the same way than wax, but they should be better. Frekote is the brand I'm using. And finally, for very difficult molds, you might try teflon-tape. It looks much like usual packing tape, is _very_ expensive, but works well. I had a mold for wakefield pylon, one piece (mold, that is), with vertical sides. Couldn't get any piece out of it with wax. I then covered it with teflon-tape, and then I could almost shake the pylons out of the mold :-) -Tapio Linkosalo-
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