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Silicone Rubber Applications

• This rubber can be extruded into tubes, strips, solid cord or any custom profiles.
• Silicone Rubber can also be moulded into custom designs and shapes.
• This form of synthetic rubber is available for making molds that are poured, brushed or sprayed on to a model.
• Suitable for casting low melt metal alloys like lead, tin, pewter.
• Also used in the production casting of resins.

Advantages of Silicone Rubber

Due to the physical, mechanical and thermal properties of silicon rubber, its advantages are many.

• High and low temperature stability
• Inertness, that is no taste or smell
• Translucent and easy to color
• Wide hardness range
• Chemical resistance
• Weatherability
• Sealing performance
• Electrical properties
• Compression set resistance

Disadvantages of Silicone Rubber

Although silicone rubber has many advantages to its many properties, there are certain disadvantages of silicone rubber too.

• Silicone rubber is generally high in cost.
• It is sensitive to substances like sulfur clay that may prevent the silicone from curing which is known as cure inhibition.
• Silicone rubber is usually very thick, having high viscosity.
• It must be vacuum degassed before pouring to minimize bubble entrapment.