Prepare Mold for Epoxy Resin

to get started with our charging station we first need to create a mold that would kind of house and frame out the epoxy resin to do so I grabbed some of the scrap shelving material essentially you just need any kind of melamine surface that would prevent things from getting stuck to it and when I made the cuts I essentially created the overall mold to be 6x 7 in now the depth had to at least hold one 1 in but at some points we can actually pour a little bit more just so later on we can sand some of it off when assembling our molds I'm just using basic 1 and a/4 in screws to do a butt joint and tighten all together but the big idea here is to waterproof the area to prevent it from leaking out through all these joints so to do so we need to use some tape the tape that we need is specifically a waterproofing tape typically people use a sheathing kind of tape that you can find in your local hardware store I got the stuff