Repairing pitting in cuda hood inserts

Agree, 3D printing. Literally build up the part in hundreds of layers. You are not goung to cast something in stainless, its castable zinc or potmetal zinc alloy. The man with the perfect restored set should get with a mold maker and get his pressed into a mold. Then you could repop them for a cut of the loot. Cast them in a UV polymer and vacuum deposition plate them, UV clearcoat them and garage it or cover it. You can 3D print a basketball, hollow and all.

When they repair a mold, they generally hand smooth/correct/fill the soft impression before they pour the final master, then they use the repaired master as the template. There is no process that will destroy a master if you are not casting with abrasive media, sand or otherwise. Why they would not give you back the model is maybe becasue they would fix that and use that as the master, not the best way in my opinion. Story: There is a repop place in Washington.....that "lost" a NOS lens from a mopar guy that never got it back, soon after that there was a perfect repop of the lost lens on the market. Just passing on a little story I heard......