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Tooling Paste and Seamless Modeling Paste Dispensing Systems
Meter, mix, and dispense high-viscosity tooling and modeling pastes with an equipment architecture built around your material, surface, and production requirements.
Kirkco designs dispensing systems for pasty two-component materials used in composite tooling, modeling, pattern development, sealing, and related manufacturing processes. Our equipment is engineered to support controlled material delivery from standard containers, consistent blending, smooth application, and repeatable production workflows.
The tooling paste portfolio includes the GP 401 TPD and Eldo-Mix 401T & Tooling Mix, systems identified by Kirkco for pasty two-component materials such as polyurethanes, epoxy resins, and microball-filled materials.
Seamless Modeling Paste Options
Custom Engineered Solutions With NDA
Gear-pump and Static-mixing Architecture
Contact Kirkco to discuss application-specific equipment for controlled component delivery and consistent blend quality.
Engineer the System Around Your Material and Tooling Process
A tooling paste system should be selected around the interaction between the material and the finished tool or model. Kirkco can help evaluate the following variables before recommending a configuration:
Material chemistry
Determines component compatibility, wetted materials, seals, cleaning method, and mixer selection.
Viscosity and filler loading
Affects material feeding, pump load, pressure, flow stability, and risk of degradation.
Microball or lightweight filler content
Can affect settling, shear sensitivity, pressure behavior, and finished density.
Component ratio
Determines the relative metering rates and influences cure behavior and final material performance.
Working time and cure profile
Influences continuous-flow strategy, mixer selection, start-stop behavior, and cleaning requirements.
Surface area and geometry
Helps determine flow rate, dispense reach, hose routing, nozzle selection, and operator or automation interface.
Desired surface finish
Affects bead control, deposit consistency, overlap strategy, and downstream finishing requirements.
Container format
Determines whether the system should draw from pails, drums, or another supply arrangement.
Production volume and cycle time
Helps define equipment duty cycle, replenishment needs, maintenance expectations, and automation level.
Protect Material Behavior While Improving Application Consistency
High-viscosity and filled materials may respond differently to pressure, shear, temperature, dwell time, and pump design. Kirkco’s published tooling paste page emphasizes gentle material feeding and low material degradation through gear-pump design. The intended process benefit is to deliver material in a controlled manner while preserving the application characteristics required by the formulation.
The system should be validated with the actual material under representative conditions. A proper engineering review should confirm component ratio, temperature range, filler behavior, static mixer selection, flow rate, pressure limits, and the expected result on the intended tool or model surface.