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Re: Make a rubber grommet
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Posted by James2 on January 19, 2005 at 05:50:35 from (12.2.142.7):
In Reply to: Make a rubber grommet posted by WeirdDeere on January 18, 2005 at 01:06:43:
I once made a rubber part, using a two part tire repair compound which resulted in vulcanized rubber; ie the real thing. I tried silicon and it did not look/feel enough like the original rubber. I used the original part to make a mold, but had to increase the size approx. 10% because the rubber shrinks as it cures. However two cautionary items: 1) The rubber is not cheap and there is not a lot of it, probably $60+ today 2) It is not easy to make a bigger mold. Almost anyone can easily make a mold the same size, but making it larger and retaining the correct dimensions is significantly more difficult. It really was not that easy for me. I would not spend the money, unless you are willing to spend significant time making the mold and possibly suffer occasional set backs. We have some really great two part rubber here at work which does not shrink (used to copy internal dimensions which can then be measured), but the darn stuff is blue.
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