Questions tagged [casting]

Suppose that we have a mold, made of whatever material that we are happy with. This mold is usually used to be filled by some casting material. Many casting materials exist. Usually, this material is supposed to capture details in the mold, and…

I have a heat treatment furnace which is very similar to furnaces used to make jewelry, such as to melt gold, silver and other precious metal alloys for casting into jewelry. In fact, the manufacturer's operational video actually shows the operator…

This is my first foray into casting. Forgive the question if its basic. I would like to cast an object to act as a vibration damper. The initial positive would be 3d printed using something like Polymaker Polycast. It looks like the silicon rubber…

We learned to make jewelry from fine pewter from a book titled Principles of Centrifugal Rubber Mold Casting. But the book wasn't clear on how to open the rubber mold after vulcanization in preparation for channel cutting. What's the best way to do…