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Author Topic: Liquid Plastic - UV Pigments - Tron - Bears, Oh My!  (Read 733 times)

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Liquid Plastic - UV Pigments - Tron - Bears, Oh My!
« on: February 25, 2014, 12:25:47 am »
Hi Gang,

So, I'm in the planning stage on a standup machine. I have most of the details worked out, but one thing I'm not able to do is match a Tron handle with any other items. I guess this isn't too big of a deal, but for what I'm doing it would be nice to have a stick, spinner and a couple of buttons all match. I guess the easy option is to make everything black, but who wants easy?  ;)

I realize that the Tron handle repro (by GGG) in injected so doing it at home is a bit of a different animal. Recently, I've been messing with silicon molds and liquid plastic/urethane on a car project. So, I was thinking that it wouldn't be to terribly difficult to make a mold of a spinner knob and some buttons (and a repro Tron handle if needed) and then just cast a few parts.

So, the short question, does anyone know the proper liquid plastic and pigment to duplicate the color and UV reactiveness of a Tron handle?

I did some research and found some stuff at Smooth-On that might work. I had very good success with their Smooth-Cast Onyx for a black car part, so I was thinking I'd try some of their other products.

For Plastics they have:
And for Pigment they have:
If anyone has an info they can share I'd appreciate it (I'm looking at you Randy! ;)). I can see the Ignite pigments not working and using some combination of a blue pigment and the Cryptolyte for all I know..  :dunno

Appreciate any thoughts, even if you want to tell me I'm on a fools errand..

 :cheers:

EDIT: Fixed URLs
« Last Edit: February 25, 2014, 01:29:30 pm by lamprey »