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Reconditioning molds

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:37 pm 
Whilst perusing this page, I learned something new. I quoteth -

"After pulling about twenty or thirty castings, you will want to recondition your molds. You do this by baking them at a low temperature. Place some foil on a cookie sheet and then place your molds on the foil. Bake them for about four hours at 250 degrees. This will help redistribute the lubricants in the rubber to help retain its flexibility. "

It's interesting to me that this guy also uses a two-pour technique to preserve detail.


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 Post subject: Reconditioning molds
PostPosted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:55 pm 
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A friend sent me this article a while back and I have been doing the two part pour and have had preatty good results so far. ?A guy I was talking to the other day asked if I had baked my molds and I was like ???? , but it does seem to work.

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:26 pm 
Well, 2 hours at 225 Farenheit didn't seem to help much. Didn't hurt, either, except for the waste heat from the oven.


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