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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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