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My Injection Molding Project PDF
My Injection Molding Project PDF
by Marsh
For the last six months, I've been working on a series of injection molding projects to reclaim plastic. Unfortunately,
I was too busy actually building them to document them in Instructables fashion. I did, however, make videos of
the different phases of the project. I am not done by any means, but this project is so popular on YouTube (and
with only two other homebrew injection molders here) I figured I better post it sooner than later.
The Prototype
Working out the Bugs
Making a Mold
You will see me use tools in these projects that are not very common like a metal lathe and a milling machine. I
want to point out that these projects can still be built with far less. For instance, turning a bar down can be
accomplished with a hand drill and sandpaper. Improvise!
Tools
Materials
We started out with this 600 Watt heating system and built a framework to hold it all together. All of this could be
done with a hand drill and a hacksaw in a pinch. The biggest issue is going to be the interface nozzle between the
melting chamber and the mold. If I didn't have a lathe, the way I would make it is by tapping threads into the end of
the melting chamber for a commonly available plumbing fitting.
https://youtu.be/MlYdd5I33Oo
We encountered some problems in the first iteration of the machine, but they weren't insurmountable, so we made
some adjustments and tried it out. The machine worked!
https://youtu.be/fZ8EvI2D2vM
Finally, we searched for a way to make a usable and sand cast a mold from pewter. That will likely be
mold. In this first effort, we used plaster of the type the next video. After that, we intend to send that
they use in ceramics. While the effort did produce a same master file to a CNC milling service to carve the
good reproduction of the original, the mold was mold from aluminum.
destroyed in the process. We have other efforts in
progress. One is to produce a master on a 3D printer
https://youtu.be/kOtjsaeTi_I