18 Sep
2009
18 Sep
'09
11:30 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
It might be better to try this with one of the
two-part epoxy
sculpting material, say Apoxie:
http://avesstudio.com/Products/Apoxie_Sculpt/apoxie_sculpt.html
You can also try Shapelock. This only requires hot water(boiling hot)
to soften the plastic pellets which you can mold into any shape. I use
it to build custom mechanical parts for my robots or pinball games,
there's lots of uses for this. Once it's cooled, it's just as hard and
rigid enough to also let you use a dremel or a CNC machine to further
customize your parts.
If you build a mold of the switch, say using a block of aluminum on a
milling machine. You can then use a press to fabricate the switch
handles with just a ball of molten shapelock plastic.
http://shapelock.com/
=Dan