Re: Casting ceramics in rubber molds

This was sent to me via private email from someone who read what I had

> done with rubber, silicone and plastic molds and ceramics (slip > casting). Apparently what I have done HAS in fact been done elsewhere > and even more. > > Here is a link. > > It seems that a Professor in Tokyo has managed to pour slip castings in > a production environment thus avoiding the longer drying times I wrote > about via implementing a "nonaqueous carrier" that allows faster drying > in a non-porous mold. he is doing this in a rubber mold. > >
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Slip casting? > Professor Nakagawa of the University of Tokyo mentioned to JTEC/WTEC > panelists that ceramic parts are typically fabricated in plaster molds, > usually using slip casting. He recently developed a nonaqueous carrier > for the ceramic, which does not require a porous mold. Nakagawa > successfully cast ceramic into a rubber mold, which opens the > possibility of having reusable molds that can be created rapidly using > an RP master. > > United States > > In the United States, universities, industries, and government > laboratories have been actively working with ceramic materials. Several > licensees are commercializing aspects of MIT's "Three-Dimensional > Printing" program These include Soligen, which offers the "Direct Shell > Production Casting" machine. The machine "writes" patterns for molds > directly into ceramic powder using a binder dispersed via an ink-jet > printer head. The resulting pattern is then cleaned of loose powder and > sintered to provide a shell into which metal can be cast. A host of > other processes are under development, most of which are tied to > modifications of existing commercial systems. Some of these efforts are > mentioned below. > > Selective laser sintering of ceramic powders and fusing of coated > ceramics are being investigated by DTM and the University of Texas. Both > Lone Peak Engineering and the University of Dayton are investigating > production of ceramic tapes and use of these tapes in the laminated > object manufacturing (LOM) environment. In addition, the University of > Dayton is extending this process to ceramic composites using both > chopped and continuous fiber reinforcement in its tape systems. Ceramic > loading of photopolymers for use in stereolithography systems is being > developed at the University of Michigan. Argonne National Laboratories > and Rutgers University are developing ceramic-loaded filaments that > will be compatible with fused deposition molding systems, similar to the > multiphase jet solidification (MJS) system being developed in Europe. > Case Western Reserve University is developing the CAM-LEM system, which > utilizes ceramic material delivered in sheet format. Each material layer > is cut by a 5-axis laser cutter that shapes the edge to match the slope > of the part at every location. The layers are then robotically stacked > and sintered to form the part. Other efforts include the program at > Stanford Research Institute to develop a filled photopolymer. > > The U.S. effort encompasses the development of ceramic molds for casting > and the fabrication of both monolithic and composite ceramic parts. The > particular ceramics under study include lower-temperature oxides and the > higher-temperature materials such as SiC and AlN. RP fabrication of > ceramic components could potentially open a variety of application areas > that heretofore have been cost-prohibitive. > > It is NOT impossible. > Michael

Still trying to make tooling & stuff to slip cast 180 3/4" squares roughly 1/8-3/16 thick using Silicone Rubber or Latex molds like your wife (per you) does in her hobby?

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Cliff Huprich
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