Molding your own case

turbolover · Post by **turbolover** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 5:25 pm

When I was in radio shack chatting up with some guy there he suggested the following method for making a mold to construct the case:

Carve the shape of the mold out of that green styrofoam they use to put flower arrangements in.

paint the shape cut otu with paraffin wax

once the paraffin wax is done it will be smooth

then paint the shape with epoxy resin which will become quite hard ( he also said something about vinyl fabrix but i cant remember what exactly)

purpose of the paraffin is to keep the epoxy from soaking into the green styrofoam stuff

once the epoxy has hardened and youve repeated the process a few times to make it strong you have a useable mold

Not sure what I would use to mold, I suppose there is some sort of plastic that I can melt into it which I could color beforehand?

arfink · Post by **arfink** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 6:21 pm

This sounds not so much like a mold, but an actual case. The resin stuff is otherwise known as BONDO, and you can make some really nice cases with bondo. Just melt off the wax and remove the foam and viola, a plastic case!

Electric Rain · Post by **Electric Rain** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 4:25 pm

This thread belongs in the Case Construction fourm. You can't move it or delete it yourself, so just keep it in mind for future reference. A mod will probably move it for you, and give you the same lecture I just did.

You should look in that forum for tips on what kind of plastic you should use and such.

P.S. To the guys that have the authority to make me one... can I be a mini-mod? Please? I've broken 400 posts... (That's sooo not enough, I know...

But I can dream, can't I?)