Bulk Resin

To anyone who does resin casting:

I've working with the Alumilite Starte Kit, which I would recommend to any beginner. Now that i'm waist deep and v ery confident, I dont want to spend another $70 on the starter kit, or the high price alumilite "kits".

Where do you all buy "BULK" resin / RTV ? I'm thinking along the lines of 5 gallon buckets or something.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

NOMADGAMER

To anyone who does resin casting:

I've working with the Alumilite Starte Kit, which I would recommend to any beginner. Now that i'm waist deep and v ery confident, I dont want to spend another $70 on the starter kit, or the high price alumilite "kits".

Where do you all buy "BULK" resin / RTV ? I'm thinking along the lines of 5 gallon buckets or something.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

NOMADGAMER

Vagabond (http://www.vagabondcorp.com/)- Resin

Silicones Inc. (http://www.silicones-inc.com/conden.htm) -RTV. GI-1000 or 1100 is your best bet. Use GI-2020A catalyst to improve the life of cured molds.

http://www.smoothon.com would be my recommendation.

Five gallons??!! What are you planning to cast? I can't imagine using 5 gallons in the rest of of my natural life- let alone before the shelf life of the resin expires!

i actually cast more than just scale model cars. I've used it to fabricate autometer sport/comp guage pods, as well as some other odds and ends. Plus, you can never have many slicks!

keep the answers coming! also, if you have a good place for RTV in bulk, that stuff isnt cheap either!

IMO MPWR is right.

Resin and silicon have a shelf life (particularly resin) and 5 gallons is a huuuuge amount for hobby purposes. It could well go off before you use it.

Buy resin in 0,5litre or litre bottles for the time being - it won't cost you much more and the total outlay will significantly less. Silicon on the other hand tends to get used up in much larger ammounts when you are making several different molds and it might be worth your while to buy this in larger quantities.

Just my 2cents.

keep the answers coming! also, if you have a good place for RTV in bulk, that stuff isnt cheap either!

There's not much to keep coming. There are very few suppliers of resins and RTVs, especially in the volumes you're talking about. Alumilite and Smooth-On are the only ones that spring to mind. Smooth-On in particullar seems to deal with the motion picture industry, one of the few industrial scale users for these products. An there are no cheap sources, as these materials really are considered specialty items. This is part of the reason that large resin kits are so expensive- sure resin parts aren't particullarly easy to produce, but in addition even in larger volumes the materials (especially RTV) simply aren't cheap.

nomadgamer
try this and let them know what your applications are.
http://www.liquidplasticsolutions.com/

MPWR
met you at mid atlantic nnl in december is MAMAS x-mas party are you going
can meet somewhere on 95 and follow us down
AL

5 gallons, is he trying to cast a real car? :naughty:

There's not much to keep coming. There are very few suppliers of resins and RTVs, especially in the volumes you're talking about. Alumilite and Smooth-On are the only ones that spring to mind.


Except for the two I gave him links to. Vagabond and Silicones Inc. are used by many of the biggest long time casters in the aftermarket.

I actually fabricate real body kits in fiberglass/resin (automotive grade). Everything in white fiberglass was created by me.

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