Quote Originally Posted by z3r0 View Post
If you were more well known I would offer mine to help get you started with a mold.
Yeah, its understandable with me being new and all. I'm heading to a junk yard today to find a few things and i'm also gonna look for one.
As for what I need to do this (or anything) I just the need the part itself, in the best condition possible. We use an adhesive sheet of teflon material and wrap it in the part we wish to mold, then proceed to lay up a mold from there, usually out of fiber glass or whatever is available for tooling.
After the mold sits and cures, we demold the original and remove the adhesive teflon and the original part remains completely unscathed.
Afterward, the mold goes in for a heated cure cycle and voila! A production ready composite mold! The mold can yield 1000+ parts before warping or disfigurement occurs.
This knowledge is the only reason why i'd even attempt composite rocker panels because some of the things i've replicated and built at work are pretty wild.
www.comtekadvanced.com