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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by spuz on Monday October 09, 2023 @03:02AM (#37817757)
I think it's a combination of not knowing what you don't know but also the huge amount of exposure we've all had to injection moulded plastic products we've all had throughout our lives. The ubiquity and low cost of plastic products makes it seem that they must not be hard to produce.
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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by TheSpiceIsLife on Monday October 09, 2023 @03:20AM (#37817882)
The first one is hard to produce, the subsequent several million, not so much.
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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by jjk166 on Monday October 09, 2023 @11:58AM (#37821753)
Running a mold takes a great deal of skill as well. Right now (literally just found out about the issue on Thursday) I'm dealing with a mold house that's struggling to hold tolerances on a part for a medical device. And they're running the parts because our in house team wasn't even coming close.

Yeah it's not something you need a skilled artisan to actively control, but a lot of technical skill goes into making consistently high quality parts.

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