Does urethane stick to rubber?
Urethanes bond well to many permeable and impermeable materials, including primed or painted metal, glass, ceramic, rubber, wood, paper, leather and many fabrics. Among plastics, they bond thermoplastic, thermoset plastics, fiber-reinforced plastic, polycarbonate and PVC, including heavily plasticized versions.
What is urethane rubber used for?
Urethane rubber is strong, but flexible enough to spring back and return to its original shape when stretched or bent. As a result, urethane rubbers are regularly used on car wheels, ball bearings, conveyor rollers, pulley wheels, and bushings.
What is VytaFlex?
Liquid Urethane Rubbers. Using Smooth-On’s exclusive “V-Polymer™” technology, VytaFlex™ urethane rubbers offer superior physical and performance properties for casting concrete. VytaFlex™ mould rubbers work especially well for casting pigmented / coloured concrete.
How strong is urethane rubber?
Urethane can be formulated with tensile strengths to 8,000 psi while maintaining elastic characteristics. As a liquid cast material, tooling costs are very low – significantly less than making metal molds. Urethane is non-brittle even at higher hardness and resists fracture during shock or impact loading.
Why choose vytaflex™ urethane rubber?
Keep Out of the Reach of Children. Using Smooth-On’s exclusive “V-Polymer™” technology, VytaFlex ™ urethane rubbers offer superior physical and performance properties for casting concrete. VytaFlex ™ urethanes are available in 10A, 20A, 30A, 40A, 45A, 50A and 60A Shore hardness’s and feature convenient one-to-one by volume mix ratios.
What is 40A vytaflex?
VytaFlex™ 40. Using Smooth-On’s exclusive “V-Polymer™” technology, VytaFlex™ urethane rubbers offer superior physical and performance properties for casting concrete. VytaFlex™ urethanes are available in 10A, 20A, 30A, 40A, 45A, 50A and 60A Shore hardness’s and feature convenient one-to-one by volume mix ratios.
Can I use vytaflex™ mold rubbers to cast colored concrete?
VytaFlex ™ mold rubbers work especially well for casting pigmented / colored concrete. Molds made with VytaFlex ™ Series urethanes will render accurate and uniform colored castings. › Click here for more VytaFlex™ rubber products.
Do I need to Degas my vytaflex™ mold rubbers?
Vacuum degassing is not necessary and VytaFlex ™ rubbers cure with negligible shrinkage to a durable rubber that will last in production. VytaFlex ™ mold rubbers work especially well for casting pigmented / colored concrete. Molds made with VytaFlex ™ Series urethanes will render accurate and uniform colored castings.