Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine

Re:Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine by syntaxing on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @08:17AM (#20094221)

Surprised and excited to see this on HN! I've been eyeing this machine for work but the tough part is designing a good mold. A simple two part mold is relatively easy with today CAD tools but it still takes some time to design if you are printing multiple pieces in one shot. If you want something for home, you're probably better off with a "drill press" injection molding machine [1]. It will run you less than $1K but you will need to do some post processing work.

[1] https://www.techkits.com/products/model-20a/

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Re:Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine by HeyLaughingBoy on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @01:24PM (#20097164)

Nice. That machine looks pretty easy to DIY with an arbor press and a temperature controlled melter for the plastic.

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Re:Low cost, all electric, benchtop injection molding machine by analognoise on Tuesday June 04, 2019 @10:01AM (#20095077)

I was considering this one, but I'm just starting down this particular rabbit hole.

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