Hi Everyone,

I got an injection mold made. The guy that made our mold is also doing our manufacturing. For a number of reasons I will be changing manufacturer once this production run is finished with (I bought the mold outright from the beginning and told him this was likely to happen).

My question is what spare parts should I get for the mold so that if something breaks, the downtime will be reduced and I will be less dependent on the mold maker.



Mold is 2 cavity with custom made hot runners. There are 2 gates on each cavity. The gates are not valve gates, I think they are hot tips instead. Each cavity also has 1 side core.

The part that is made in the mold is transparent and quite large with outer dimensions of 380 x 160 x 80mm.


Thanks for any responses/advice.
Sean