The Plastiform Range at a Glance
The table below lists the 20 Plastiform impression products with the five values that drive your choice.
How to Read the Table
The five values are consistency, Shore hardness, maximum removal constraint, the time after which you can remove the impression, and Double Blade Cutter compatibility. All these values come from the technical sheet of each product.
You can use a product only if its maximum removal constraint is strictly higher than the removal constraint of your part. At 0%, the shape must have no undercut at all. For the XL products, this value is an indication, valid for impressions of a standard volume (5 to 20 ml).
Three Consistencies and One Large-volume Range
Fluid products (F) flow into internal shapes. They come in 50 ml cartridges and require a dispensing gun and a nozzle.
Pasty products (P) stay where you apply them, on external or vertical surfaces. They use the same 50 ml cartridges and the same dispensing gun.
You mix and apply Manual Putty products (M) by hand, with no accessory. They come in pots.
XL products are Fluid products for large volumes, packaged in 400 ml cartridges, bottles, or cans. Their times are much longer, so an XL product is not the standard product in a bigger pack. You can remove F20 XL after 20:00, and F20 after 6:00.
Products Made for One Job
P80 Ra is made for roughness measurement with a contact roughness tester, while F30 Visual gives a glossy black impression for visual inspection of the surface finish.
F30 Max accepts the highest removal constraint of the range at 40%. P25 has the highest elongation at break of the range at 300%.
P51 SD is the most rigid and the fastest product. Its hardness is given in Shore D and you can remove it after 1:00. M80 LP has a long polymerization and can be removed after 25:00.
F04 Protect, at 4 Shore A, is a protection product, not a measurement product, so it is not in the table.
Resolution
The impression resolution is 1 µm for Fluid and Pasty products, and 10 µm for Manual Putty products. Manual Putty is made for checking shape and dimensions on surfaces you can reach by hand, not for fine surface detail.
