Worst part molded

[ATI K ID]

Don't care if its mold, mold design, tolerances, material, or if its just the customer. ( You know the one that wants the part in plastic with properties of steel, or tell you set the mach on low-med-high :^| lol how about broil.)

[Suhas]

A customer got me a part being molded elsewhere, got me the resin and asked me to mold it the same as the other guy. Worked on it about 18 hours a day for 4 days changing process, machine, screw and barrel, etc, etc to find out that he had shipped us the wrong material !!!! It was very frustrating!
Suhas

[rickbatey]

An acetal job that stuck to the mold like crazy, and no one had robots back then. So you had to have an operator remove by hand. What a dog!!
Rick.

[moldingppm]

I've been running a PVC job for about 5 years now. Complete pain in the ass. If I could choose not to run PVC ever again, I would.

[rusty]

worst tool i have ever seen was a 39t stacker mould, the hot runner setup was so complicated it looked like a 6yr old had designed it. it never worked, couldnt make a good part to save its life, in the end we had 2 tools built to replace it. Even now it makes me angry thinking about it. A close second was a set of tools running 30% glass filled abs/pc, the material went off in the hot runner if the machine stopped for 1 minute. we had to start up and shut down the tools using natural abs to get the tools to run. there are many others, but thats another story.

[Suhas]

Not sure this is the 'worst' but once I was asked to come in a do a new mold validation. Went there to find out the mold had NO water lines. It was sort of a 3/4 inch long tube closed on one end - eight cavity cold runner. Now what do I do??? I was told the old mold needed to be shut down every 4-5 hours. Robust processing? - out of the window, into a deep well I guess.
Suhas

[brentb]

Saw a company buy a mold and press for a project, and the mold was too big for the press!
Saw same company buy a press with big enough platens , but shot size was too small
Guy doing buying was owner's son (now the owner). He learned though.

If someone asks me about the world's greatest Molder, I will retell the story!

KOM
brent

[MIOMY]

I justed started with a company who makes all their molds run bad, inadequate equipment, electrical issues, buying reprocessed material, no mould maintenance, one maintenance guy for 24/7 operation and 25 machines, water restricted flow and temp agency operators, 1 set up tech and 1 material handler 12 hour continental shifts ! Beat that ... lol