Making your own mats

seafox

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fellow in montana used lego blocks to make a mold and silicone calking to make mats. a 10 by 10 inch base plate has about 32 times 32 ~ 1028 little posts making catch pockits and the blocks very the level ands make drop riffles. their are two formulas of silicone calk one mixed with dawn dish soap and one mixed with corn starch. I tried an acrilic silioconized calk but added to much corn starch and then added water. made a nice batter which is slowly drying out in the pot in a fridge. likely will toss it. got silicone for second try 3.35 at the family doller store for 9 oz.
the elastomarics cost about 25 a gallon or 80 for 4.5. they are acrillic latex. true liqiid rubber epdm from rubberits is 29 fo0r a quaRT nD 80 FOR 5 GALLON. intrestingly they sell a cround rubber to bulk their product. any thoughts would be aqpreciated. looking at the cost for epdm I apreciate the cost charged from manufactures like gold hog for their matts. wonder if elastomaric mats or even latex paints given enough dryng time would work.

thankyou for your thoughts
 

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