Brother Meredith
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Finecast was a thing in itself, really had to compromise the sculpts with all the vents for it to work. I recall watch a video with someone from the production team who discussed it in more detail.
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Fimm McCool
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Isn't that what finecast was anyway? A form of injection moulded resin. Apart from automation maybe saving on man hours I can't see the point.
Fimm McCool
Lord
Spin cast resin was a brief fad in the late 90s with companies used to spinning metal. It's a really dumb way to cast resin.
orkwrangler
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I believe it was because of volatility in metal prices. Made profitability of metal range impossible to predict.
ManicMan
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of course, you need to take into account with metal, any mis-casts and sprue pieces go back into the pot to be remelted and used. with resin, it's one-shot and you are done. you need more sprue bits/channels and you can't reuse them, no can you do much with mis-casts bar the odd cheap sale. this creates far more waste and increases the PpP. and apart from some automation, metal casting takes less man hours. you heat up the metal, you pour, you take mould out of spin caster, you have it sitting for 10 mins to cool down before you can reuse that mould. with Resin, you are gonna want atleast an hour gap.
Michael Stockin
Lord
Unless you are doing buildings or big stuff.
Lots of my old resin buildings had smaller miscast items in them.
ManicMan
Lord
I mean in the way you can't reuse resin ^_^ In theory, you can probably use some as filler but the reaction has taken place and it's now inert. Though some are trying to claim a 'reusable 3d printer resin', I'm not sure how much I trust the 'early days results' like that. Not properly reported or tested yet..
Fine for hobby casting with filler but I wouldn't recommend it as a commercial thing.
Fine for hobby casting with filler but I wouldn't recommend it as a commercial thing.
Michael Stockin
Lord
Ha, well I did and so do quite a few other companies.
But other proper companies that make a living rather than a few grand a year doing it.
Fimm McCool
Lord
I meant spinning resin is dumb. Cast it in a pressure pot, fine. Spin it? Nope.
Sure, metal price fluctuates. Thanks to the big orange baby tin is the highest it's ever been, making regular casting alloy £30 a kilo. That still makes an average figure about 40p of metal. Ten years ago it was about £8 a kilo.
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Eric
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We've Cornish members, time to find one with a mine on their land and start digging!
orkwrangler
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In business predictability sometimes outweighs other considerations. Waste can be tested for and priced into the product.