[sdiy] Molding your own keycaps for tactile switches?

[Peter Grenader]

Carbon fiber is also used for molds...they don't last as long as metal and
of course, just as impractical for DIY purposes.  They are used for
commercial carbon fiber laminating all the time however (meaning - a mold
made of carbon fiber is used to mold other carbon fiber structures).

- P

Ken Stone wrote:

>> "An alternative solution for the cheap DIY kind of person is to buy Vince
>> Gingery's book "Plastic Injection Molding Machine" and really do it
>> yourself."
>> 
>> This is what I was thinking of. Wasn't aware that metal moulds are needed.
>> What about RTV silicon?
> 
> No. That's okay for resin. It would distort/tear with the presures needed
> for plastic.
> 
> Ken
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