In today's video I will be testing a 50 year old Baby Boomer "toy", Mattel's 1970 Hot Wheels Factory #4355. This video is not for kids as I demonstrate the use of sharp knifes and hot molten plastic material.
Injection molding is the process used to mass-produced plastic parts such as windshields, interiors and wheels. A two-part mold is held in a hydraulic press as molten thermoplastic is injected at high pressure. Mattel’s 1970 Hot Wheels Factory is a miniature version of this process with a plug-in heater and a hand-powered injector piston. You just slide open the heating chamber and insert small thermo-plastic pellets called Plastix. Slip the mold under the nozzle and push down firmly on the lever to squirt a piston full of hot plastic into the mold. The kit came with enough molds and materials to make 10 different cars. Also included in the kit were paint and stickers to detail your creations!
This 50 year old set was purchased used, so I didn't know how well it would work. The original redline capped wheels and axles were in short supply, so I used modern common 5 spoke wheels for my original test. I also used a molding "wax" replacement material from Mattel's 2001 Car Factory as I don't have much of the original Plastix pellets and they are next to impossible to find.
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Audio Credits (in order of appearance):
Heading West by Audionautix
Fugetaboutit by Dan Lebowitz
Whatdafunk by Audionautix
Both Audionautix tracks are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/... audionautix.com/
22 фев 2020
