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I have a handful of low volume production molds made out of aluminum. These molds were only supposed to support a particular project for so long, you know how that goes, still running the...

The Injection Molding handbook (3rd Edition) is a great resource. You can find it in .PDF if your looking in the right places.

Well, it turns out it was a bad lot of material. The supplier sent us some material that had not been mixed properly. We received a new batch of it this morning and we are making good parts. I think...

We sandblasted the tool again today. We lowered the material melt and increased injection speed which seems to be doing the trick so far. The variation we have with this process on this job has...

Thanks for the recommendations Chris. Laser thermometer sounds like a good investment.

We have had some flow issues in the past. We checked the flow this morning, everything seems ok. I wish I had a surface temp thermometer, to monitor actual mold temp, but we dont. I was thinking...

We've been molding gunstocks for a few years now flaw free. All of a sudden we are faced with glossy/shiny spots where walls intersect. We had the tool reblasted yesterday and by the end of the day...