A One-Step Skin

Priming, wet sanding and adding a release agent is a traditional three-step finishing process for freshly created parts and molds.  QuickSkin, a new coating formula from Zyvax (www.zyvax.com; Boca Raton, FL), aims to skin that down to one.  Applied with a roller or a brush, the surfacing agent is structured to seal without sanding, additional finishing or post-curing steps.  Between two and six coats - depending on the parts’ porosity – are required and can be applied with as little as 15 minutes in-between.  Cured film is designed to hold up under temperatures as high as 275° F.  Although initially developed for molds or parts from machine tooling with any density, QuickSkin also supports rapid prototyping for master parts and/or a limited number of production parts.