IE 3055 Jacket-Process & Pictures

Here are a couple pictures of the jacket material, IE 3055. This is a mold of a piece of coral. I used GI 1100 to make the flexible silicone glove. Once I had a couple layers built up on the silicone, I added one layer of the IE 3055. It is thixotropic, so after about 30 seconds of mixing, it will become thixotropic and nice thick layers can be added over the silicone to give it rigidity. I have added a silicone locator (white knob) to the center of the blue silicone glove. When the jacket is placed over the glove, the knob is pulled through the jacket to keep the sidewalls snug to the side of the jacket. now your walls won't cave-in on themselves.

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Here the glove is being placed into the jacket.

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Once the mold is together, I used the IE 3030 and rotationally cast it into the mold. A nice skin was filled into all the intricate detail and undercuts of the GI 1100 silicone. The high tear strength of this silicone makes it a great choice when you need high detail-repeatable castings. The low viscosity of the IE 3030 fills in everywhere! I then poured our 4-PCF foam (FM 2045)into the created 3030 skin and filled the empty void. The glove is removed from the mothermold and the glove is peeled from the cast. The part was cast and demolded in roughly 30 minutes.

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Here's the finished piece.

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Guess which one is the master???

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For everyone getting a sample of the IE 3055, I recommend pre-weighing or measuring into cups and then add one side into the other while mixing. This will give you a smoother mix. Sorry the pictures are kind of crummy. But you get the idea. (I need a new lab camera boss!!!)

 

Once the mold was completed, I poured about 150 grams of IE 3030 and rotationally cast it by hand. This product sets-up in 3-minutes, so I rotationally spun it for about 5-minutes to make sure thin sections were completely covered and the material was molten. I then cast IE 2045 foam immediately into the 3030 to fill the empty cavity.

 

Very little heat generated Kerby. These silicones do not react the way that a polyurethane system reacts. Tin based molds, like the GI 1100, are condensation cure and there is virtually zero heat produced in this reaction. Some of our typical customers cast 50 to 100 pound molds to replicate car bumpers and the like, and if there was an exotherm, it would destroy the masters. Platnum molds are addition cure reactions and the heat generated is very small. It will work great against fish, lizards or any organics. We actually used the GI 1100 to mold one of our sales-guys hands this past year!