Matty F wrote:
Apart from mending broken glasses and suchlike, you can make quite big
things using epoxy resin and a mould made from bits of old plastic
pipe:
http://i42.tinypic.com/mkdx0k.jpg
That's the old insulator on the right.
The epoxy turns up nicely on a lathe as long as you don't add silica
or anything that blunts metal tools.
That's mighty impressive. Which product did you use? I've done similar
things with polyester, but nothing as precise as that.