> When things calm down this winter I'm going to experiment with casting
> bushings for my street Spitfire out of the compound we use at work. It
> comes as a two part like an epoxy and comparable in hardness to the butyl
> rubber bushings. All I need to do is form up a mold on the mill and I'm
> set.
Might be worth noting, in case anyone else wants to try this, that the castable
polyurethane comes in many different hardnesses as well. As I recall, there
were formulas from 40 shore (which is about the same as the EPDM 'rubber'
bushings) to over 90 shore, which is very hard, almost like wood.
Randall
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