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Old 01-23-2006, 11:35 PM
bilco bilco is offline
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female mold

Hi I have just finished building a cold molded hull with an carbon top coat and want to make a female mold from her....is this hard to do without stuffing up my hard work?....what sort of release agent?...the hull is 15foot any idea of cost of making the mold?? thanks any help would be great..
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Old 01-24-2006, 07:59 AM
Jeff Therrell Jeff Therrell is offline
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I just finished a 15' hull mold and I had about $4000 in it in material and it took 3 weeks to build. The release I use is Extend 802 made by Axel,it is a wipe on leave on and works great.
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Old 01-30-2006, 12:06 AM
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