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Old 07-06-2012, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by wwddww34
I have heard about this product made by Smooth-On called OOMOOŽ Silicone Rubber. It allows you to cast a rubber mold of just about any 3-dimensional object so that you can re-create it. However I don't think it would stand up to the high temperatures that are used when a PolyCarb body is made. The rubber mold could be used to make an epoxy resin copy of the '72 Firebird body, but it would only last 2 seconds on any R/C racetrack.
A negative could be made and then an aluminum bearing epoxy could be used to make a buck. Smooth on has a product that like that, which they actually show a mold for a vacuum form made using the product.
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