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I've used SMooth on Stuff for years in my
railway modeling. They make it for MicroMark and a bunch of other
companies incase you need additional sources. I even cast freight
car trucks from it. Word of advise though, the thicker, the
better!!!! its hard to cast extremely thin cross sections with
it.
Bart Salmons
Slammer 6
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Sent: Friday, July 01, 2005 3:16 PM
Subject: [TANKS] resin treads and
wheels
I was just at Smooth-On's main office getting
some trial size resins.
I told the lady what I'd like to end up using
the resin for (treads and maybe wheels and sprockets) and she told me that the
resin (Task 4) works well for the wheels but some of them prefer to use a hard
rubber for the treads rather than a resin due to slippage (no biggie there,
just cast in some rubber pads if i intend to hit the streets). i plan to get
further into that conversation with her via email (once I get a hold of here
again).
Now when I get to the point of having my treads mastered for
molding, I plan to have the thinnest part no less that 1/4" thick (i expect it
to be up to 3/8" or there abouts in some spots).
now to figure out the
design of the sprocket (can be bigger than 6" dia -- not including the
sprocket teeth them selves).
ya, I know, I'm one of them thick headed
people, but since it's what I work with all the time, I know something has got
to work using this stuff (i just got to find it!).
Chris,
Odyssey Slipways
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