
Customer Project: Indianapolis Fabrications Assists Sopheap Pich – “A Room” Installation
Commissioned to assist Sopheap Pich with the “A Room” installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Polytek customer India...
Commissioned to assist Sopheap Pich with the “A Room” installation at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA), Polytek customer India...
The Library Life of a rubber mold is the length of time a rubber mold will remain useful after being placed in storage. When proper...
Here at Polytek, we often recommend the use of liquid polyurethane rubber to make molds for concrete casting (e.g., concrete tiles...
A model, also called a “master”, should be prepared according to the model material & mold material.Models being used to make a pol...
Looking back through the archives of Developments, a Polytek® printed newsletter covering a variety of mold making and casting topi...
If a tear develops in your polyurethane rubber or silicone rubber mold, one of the following options may help to repa...
There are three methods that we typically recommend for creating cold cast bronze pieces [Figure 1]: solid casting, slush casting, and...
We’ve compiled a list detailing the most common reasons that rubber mold making projects go wrong (e.g, uncured materials, incompl...
What is Slush Casting?Casting material is manually “slushed around” in the mold, creating a thin layer, which results in a hollow,...
Project: Architectural Restoration: Making a Rubber Site Mold to Replace a Damaged Column This commercial building is bei...
Body molds and castings can be made using a variety of products. The following tutorial details the steps needed to create a Hydrog...
Out of the entire Polytek® product line-up, platinum-cured silicones (PlatSil® products) are most likely to suffer from cure inhibition...