Kickstarter fulfillment hell is what happened. The KS campaign ended right when the supply chains went to crap. The project is a solid year behind schedule but we are just about caught up now. Inventory will be limited from month-to-month.
Yes, post printing work typically needs to be done. We highlight our process for printed inserts here : www.micro-molder.com/post/user-guide-for-3d-printed-tooling-with-micromolder
Looks nice and is well priced (at least the kickstarter offers) ive seen manually operated molding machines based off a drill press stand for this price lol Though I hope that there is bigger funnel to load more pellet at once. Also shame there is no remowable back so you can overmold cables in the middle (protruding cables out on both sides).
Yep, There are two estop buttons and the machine is fairly slow. When the window guard is open the machine will not move (this was disabled for the vides to better see the parts and the inside of the machine).
nice product!!!! after doing a ton of research. where do I get the molds from? Im in designing phase now. But at the moment I'm only going to be able to do 3d resin printed injection mold.
Any SLA 3D printer can should be able to produce molds. We use the Formlabs Form3 Printer with their High Temp resin. Non high temp SLA resins can work also but the HT resin molds tend to last longer.
@@ShopBotix thank you. And that mold would then be able to mate up to this machine? Or just for the hand pressed machines out there? Because I’m wanting to do 1000 to 2000 of about 4 to 6 different colors. And one will need to be nickel plated. At least on one side
@@NickD511 3D printed molds can bold into MicroMolder. For the number of parts your wanting to run a 3D printed mold will likely not last for that many parts. You can prototype the mold design using 3D printed molds and then switch to an aluminum mold once you know your mold design will output the part correctly. 3D printed molds typically wont last into the 1000's of parts.
@@ShopBotix so looking at the size of the die 5.75 x 5.75. I could possibly get 3 to 4 sets. So if a 3d SLA last around 100 shots. Then that's perfect.
most injection molding machines either use compressed air to drive the plates, so you end up with pneumatic clamping forced, or use a large coil spring on the driven side to apply the final clamping force, this gives the opportunity to add a clutch on it aswell to set a maximum clamping force
This is such a bad ass video! I keep telling myself I’m gonna make one like this at work 😂 That’s some cool stuff tho, to take injection molding and put it on a desk top and run production from your living room!!😳
I had to do a double take here, because the actual molded part looks like the ear-retainer for my TBI Sport Earphones. In any case, the ones it comes with are too soft and bendable, so to 3D print a stiffer set of replacements (not to mold them, but to just print a pair) would be very easy. So I stop the video to comment...and then I start the video again. And it turns out that's exactly what he's molding. Just for a different make of earphones. Doh! Have a laugh at my expense--I won't mind. :D More seriously though, it's just serendipity when one idea leads to another, as this one did. Very helpful video--it has my lil' ol' pea brain a workin'....
The runner for this part came off with the tool. The runner is then hand trimmed off the part. The sprue was sticking in the tool and we had to pull it out with plyers. So by running these tests we learned that we needed to increase the runner diameter so that they wouldn't break away from the spure. We also determined that the spure needed to have more draft and the tool wall at the spure needed to be polished as the printed tool has a bit of a texture or tooth that causes a higher amount of stiction. Making these changes allowed for the spure and runner to leave with the part on ejection.
I agree, the cinematography is really good, though the footage of a masonry bit and hammer drill drilling into metal was a bit odd. i'll chalk it up to the crew having a sense of humor.
You mean inject into a 3D printed mold? This all depends on the inner cavity geometry and the plastic that is being injected. Too many variables to give a specific number but between 1 and a few hundred.