Originally Posted by Scott_bob The mold and die machining discipline is the most difficult of all tool making processes. Plastic injection molds are the most precise and highest quality molds. The only molds that are more precise or have a higher degree of finishing skill would be for optics...
Ask people to list the machines needed, and the supporting tools and technologies for being successful at it...
It is a good buisness only, if you're good at it.
Reputations follow performance and a reputaion can be affected by very little gone wrong.
This discipline is definetly NOT for the inexperienced... |
I know that mold making is one of the most difficult of all tool making processes. Maybe in the states this is the case, but here in Mexico yo can find really bad quality plastic products, like buckets, cups, etc... that's the kind of molds I'm aiming to...not high precision molds like the ones used for celular phones, or high quality appliances, Got the idea? I want to make my own molds for this kind of cheap plastics prodcuts and not pay 100K for a nasty bucket mold
.I know that to get to high precision mold making you need millions of dlls for getting cnc machines, mold software for the design, and really experienced people. My idea is to be realistic and start from the bottom, I'm not in a hurry and I am pacient and my goal is cheap not precision molds, well that's for the start, maybe in 20 years I will be making aircraft parts or something like that
Regards...
Hector