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Re: Help with release agents needed

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From: Tapio Linkosalo
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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Subject: Re: Help with release agents needed
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