Rtv2 Liquid Silicone Rubber

Usage of pad printing silicone rubber:

Pad printing silicone rubber is mainly applicable for the printing of irregular patterns on plastics toys, 

electroplating products, electronic toys, trademarks, artwork gifts, and stationery etc.

Description of pad printing silicone rubber:

The silicone pad is a carrier which transfers the patterns from the steel plate onto the products̢۪ surface.

It has the advantage of good printing effects, good quality, good resilience, and without any impurity.

Pad printing silicone rubber is kinds of RTV-2 liquid silicone rubber with excellent fluidity and good operational performance ,it includes platinum cure type and tin cure type. Its function is to pick up the image from the steel plate (cliche) and then transfer it to the product of almost any convex , concave, regular ,irregular ,or flat surface.

Characteristics of pad printing silicone rubber

- Thousands of printing times, high quality

- Excellent printing effects

- Excellent resilience

- Without any impurity

- Multiple hardness

Operation Instruction for Pad Printing silicone rubber:

1. Firstly, clean the mold with detergent, and dry it by a piece of cloth or an air gun and then coat the mold with a layer of release agent.

2. Generally, the ratio of pad printing silicone rubber and the silicone oil depends on the size of pattern which customer needs to print. The larger the pattern is, the softer the printing pad should be, and more silicone oil needs to add.

 Contrarily, if a silicone pad with high hardness needed, silicone oil should be added less or none. Generally. the hardness of the printing pad is 15A~-25 A. If too much silicone oil added in the silicone rubber, the printing pad will be too soft, and this will limit the printing times. The silicone oil will destroy the molecular chain of the silicone rubber, no matter how supreme quality the silicone rubber is. 

And therefore, the printing pad will be abrasion intolerant and solvent intolerant and easy ageing.

3. General mixing proportion is as follows: add 30g silicone oil into 100g silicone then hardness of 20A printing pad we get, which is suitable for the pad printing for alloy car and other products with small patterns and contact areas. If a big contact surface or a soft silicone pad needed, the mixing proportion between the silicone and the silicone oil can be 100:30-100:50. But please note that the more silicone oil added, the softer the silicone pad will be, which will also reduce printing times, abrasion resistance and solvent resistance. Therefore, cost increase and material waste will occur.

4. Relation between the amount of the curing agent added and the chemical reaction of the silicone is as follows: 

Mix 100g silicone and 50g silicone oil sufficiently and evenly.

Then add the curing agent which is 2%-3% of the total weight of the silicone and the silicone oil, keep stirring for 2-3 minutes, and then vacuuming to remove the air bubbles. It is better to finish vacuuming within 10 minutes. If it takes too long, it may cause fast curing and affect the quality of the printing pad