Luis Ernesto Flores Olazo- academy 2014

Molding and Casting

for this assigment I decided to make something usefull for my final project and a that is a lower lid replacement with fake shaft for my servomotors.

Designining the mold: I used Autodesk Inventor to design the mold.

Photo: 3D model boolean subtraction

Machining the mold: I used The roland modela and machinable wax to fabricate the mold.

...

A short video of the process:

The result:

For casting I mixed Polyester Resin, "Cobalt" (Activator-1.5%), "Peroxid" (Catalyst-0.5%), Monostyrene (solvent-the necesary to get the correct viscosity) :

In the picture above you can see that I needed a countermould, so I designed and printed it.

Photo: countermould, 3D model-----> 3D printed

Then put the countermould on the top:

The final result:

Files:

Mediafire

https://www.mediafire.com/folder/8hbn22l9hfgm5/mold_and_casting

Github

https://github.com/lefolindo/molding