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Wetmelon
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Hey PF,
I normally frequent the EE portion of this board, but I had a question about plastics and plastic injection molding.
A buddy and I have an idea to create a rather small and specific plastic object in large quantities. We thought that to create small prototype quantities, we could melt plastics and re-pour them into our mold. Is this even possible, or do I need a high pressure to stop the plastics from burning instead of melting?
As for injection molding, what kind of costs are associated with tooling a mold and doing a production run (say of a few thousand objects of volume ~140mm^3 ABS plastic with designs on the surface)? Is there a better method to do what I'm thinking?
I normally frequent the EE portion of this board, but I had a question about plastics and plastic injection molding.
A buddy and I have an idea to create a rather small and specific plastic object in large quantities. We thought that to create small prototype quantities, we could melt plastics and re-pour them into our mold. Is this even possible, or do I need a high pressure to stop the plastics from burning instead of melting?
As for injection molding, what kind of costs are associated with tooling a mold and doing a production run (say of a few thousand objects of volume ~140mm^3 ABS plastic with designs on the surface)? Is there a better method to do what I'm thinking?