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Plastic Mold Making business

I received an interesting e-mail yesterday from someone inquiring about making plastic molds for building planters with faces on them.

I’m going to just copy it and paste it here. So you can read it to.

Del,

I found an article http://www.abceo.com/ and I’d like to try to make these planters but I don’t know how to make the plastic mold. Can you assist?? I work for an agency that works with developmental disabled individuals and we started an art gallery and would like to make some of these planters to sell.

Thanks,

S Belle

Hello S Belle:

Thanks for visiting my site.

I have been thinking about your request for info on making plastic molds for heads to use as planters.

I don’t know where you could buy the molds but can guarantee that they would be expensive and require some expertise to use.

If I was going to try this I would go to garage sales and hobby stores looking for “heads” to use as the basis for my mold.
Plastic Halloween masks make nice cheap plastic molds. Look for ones without any undercuts and that are fairly rigid.
Make up a sand bed with clean moist sand _ if you can pick up a handful and squeeze it, it should stay together.

Cover the eye, nose, and any other holes in the mask. Before you place the mask in the sand bed – coat it with some 10w engine oil. Get the cheapest stuff you can. Don’t put too much on or it will make pits in the surface.
Pack the sand around and under the mask to make sure it holds its shape.
Mix some hypertufa and carefully pack it into the mask.

You will have to wait patiently for a couple of days for the hypertufa to cure. You should be sure that it is kept damp during the curing time.
Once it has cured remove it from the mold and use it to form the front of your Pot-Head.

Maybe you could get some sort of Styrofoam container that you could cut a piece out of and fill the gap with your face casting. Then just use the hypertufa as a glue and filler to cover the container and to holes the casting into place.

I can see it now – you will get a bunch of Richard Nixon masks…….
I hope this gives you some ideas to work with and would like some pictures and commentary if you follow through. (for me to post on my site)

I would like to use this reply as an article on my site (if I get ambitious) and would change your name if it is OK with you? I can leave your name if you like, but either way I will remove the references to .com etc.

Good luck and best wishes’,

Del

Hello again Del,
Thanks for responding!! I’m thinking about buying two head planters and yes they are expensive but I thought I would bite the bullet and then use them for molds. They are, I think concrete planters, and so my next question is how do I use them to make a mold. The answer to your question about posting my questions on your site is fine as long as you change my name and don’t use my organizations information.

Thanks,

S Bell

Hello S Belle:
On my site I have an article about making rubber molds. I would advise against trying it unless you are real adventurous. It is a big job you have to make the actual rubber mold (this is probably the easy part), then make another “case” that comes apart to hold the mold while you pour the concrete. This is generally fiberglass and unless you or someone you know has done it before it is quite a project.

Even if you have purchased a plastic mold you will discover you need a vibrating table in order to make aluminum die casting with no air pockets and it will take a few practice runs before you are able to produce anything that is saleable.
My feeling is if you get some masks and use hypertufa, you don’t need any special skills, you can pack the ‘tufa by hand and will be making nice looking planters in a short period of time. You could make a few ‘faces’ and the go ahead and incorporate them onto your hypertufa planters. One of the nice things about it is that you can ‘glue’ it together.

One other thing is the ‘tufa is very light so you don’t have to have a lot of help to set them up for sale. It is also generally ok to have some flaws in tufa as it adds to the rustic look. Being done by hand means that you will not have a lot of identical planters for sale – similar but not the same. You will find that after you become comfortable with the stuff you will be making more and more articles of your own design.
You may want to get this information – it has helped a lot of people get a feel for what is involved in this hobby.
I hope this helps some, and thanks for the permission!

Del

I hope this is useful to anyone who’s considering making their own molds. If you have any questions please ask and I will try to answer them.

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Plastic Mold Manufacturer

Plastic Mold Manufacturer

HXY. is a long-established Plastic Mold Manufacturer that started as a manufacturer of radial drilling machines in 1947. In the succeeding decades, the company developed a leading role in the manufacture of high-speed and high-accuracy milling and boring machines.

Now, the Mecof Group has a personnel roster of approximately 500 spread throughout Europe and the United States. Sales and services offices are located in Germany, France, Russia, and the United States. The headquarters operation, Mecof S.p.a is responsible for the design, manufacture, assembly, sales and service. Salvadeo Srl handles the assembly of the Unica line and retrofitting activity while Spaziosystem Srl is the software house. There are as well two general engineering workshop organizations, Meccanica UNO Srl and Mecof Hungary Kft.

plastic mold manufacturer
plastic mold manufacturer

A newly developed production range draws on the power of HSC. The high accuracy of the Mecof machines offer a decrease in machining time from 40% to 70% for molds and dies, and reduced time for finishing.

Günther, Weigelt Form Alliance to
Enhance Competitiveness

To excel in today’s competitive plastics arena, plastics manufacturers are striving to provide their customers with the best possible products and service. Increasingly, this group of manufacturers is specializing in one aspect of the product development process—in design, for example, or in engineering, tooling, or production.

Such is the logic that has propelled two medium-size companies, Günther Hot Runner Systems Inc. and Weigelt Systems, to join forces. Each is managed by its owners and each concentrates in different fields of the product development process—Günther in hot runner systems, Weigelt in liquid silicone. By entering into this partnership, Günther hopes to cater to all the needs its customers might have.

Kennametal Awards Fast Car to
Highlight Commitment to Speed

As part of a campaign to promote its high-performance milling products during September’s International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) in Chicago, Kennametalconducted a sweepstakes with a “Speed Machine” hot rod as the grand prize. The car was a custom-built 1934 Ford coupe in Kennametal yellow with a 350-in³, 350-hp Chevy engine. The winner was Gord Brock of Roctel Linamar in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Kennametal chose the hot rod as its sweepstakes prize to emphasize the company’s ongoing commitment, through its wide array of milling solutions and services, to accelerate milling, customer productivity and profitability. looking for plastic mold manufacturer? Go to https://www.plasticmold.net/company/ to know more mold technology

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New Company Named Distributor of ONA EDM Equipment in UK

UK machine tool distributor Warwick Machine Tools Ltd. (WMT), founded in 1970 and acquired by Yuasa Trading of Tokyo in 1992 to form Yuasa Warwick Machinery, has been reestablished under the old name as sole UK agent for ONA EDM equipment and a new range of bed-type machining centres from MTE. Both ONA and MTE are based in northern Spain. ONA is the biggest producer of large-scale EDM machines in the European Union and the oldest EDM equipment manufacturer in the world.

This machine is very good for making plastic molds

WMT is a joint venture of Yuasa Trading and Gerard Berger, who was responsible for ONA sales at Yuasa before becoming managing director of the new company. Paul Barry continues as technical director. All warranties on ONA equipment installed in the United Kingdom will be honoured by WMT.

Says Berger: “In reestablishing WMT as essentially a single-product supplier of ONA equipment, albeit we now also have a complementary range of prismatic metal-cutting machines, it is my intention to give ONA customers the support they deserve but that was perhaps diluted when the products were sold through a multi-machine-tool distributor.” Technical sales are handled both in-house and through distributors, with an emphasis on collaborating with the customer to satisfy particular needs.

The company recently unveiled a new range of high-end ONA die-sinkers and fixed-bed submersible wire-cut machines as well as entry-level wire-cut machines based on the Prima family.

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Hot Runner Mold

Advantages of Hot Runner systems for plastic molds

1) no outlet material after processing is not required, so that the entire molding process is fully automated, saving time and increasing efficiency.

2) the pressure loss is small. Hot runner temperature and the injection molding machine nozzle temperature equal to the raw surface to avoid condensation inside runner, injection pressure loss.

3) outlet material will be reused plastic performance degradation, and use the hot runner system has no outlet material can reduce the loss of raw materials, thereby reducing production costs. Temperature and pressure in the cavity uniform, small plastic parts stress, uniform density, in the smaller injection pressure, a relatively short molding time, better than the average of the injection system of the injection molding product. For transparent parts, thin pieces, large plastic parts or high demand plastic parts can show its advantages, but also can be used to produce a larger product smaller models.

Hot runner mold

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4) thermal spray nozzle using standardized series design, with a variety to choose from a nozzle head, good interchangeability. The unique design of the processing of electric heating coil, heating temperature uniformity can be achieved, and long service life. Hot runner system is equipped with manifold plate, temperature control, etc., compact design, a wide variety, easy to use, stable and reliable quality.

Do you need hot runner mold for your business or your new products? Here I offer you some finally suggestion, if you want your plastic mold to running for over 1 million shot, then we suggest you to make hot runner mold, because this will save your cycle time and save the runner waste, if the mold life requirement less than 0.2 million then we suggestion use could runner, of course this is not always the same it is depending on the part size if part size is over 300 mm, then hot runner will be better option, you can go to our mean website to know more about this.

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