HIGH
TOLERANCE SOFT TOOLING
Bonding Metal To Urethane
Blood Pump Gear
One
steel "master male pattern" is machined
on a CNC lathe from Solid Works® CAD program
and mounted in a pot.
A
special urethane was poured over a "master
male pattern" to produce a high tolerance gear
female mold. The steel hub is then inserted into
the urethane mold.
With
the steel hub now in the mold, urethane is poured
into mold and bonds to hub. The gear and steel hub
are demolded. Molds will last thousands of castings.