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What You Need to Know About Leader Pins and Bushings
There’s a lot more to these humble but essential mold components than you might suspect. Following the author’s tips could save much time, money and frustration.
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How to Design Three-Plate Molds: Part 5
There are many things to consider, and paying attention to the details can help avoid machine downtime and higher maintenance costs. In this installment, the focus is on design and placement of sucker/puller pins.
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How To Design Three-Plate Molds – Part 4
There are many things to consider, and paying attention to the details can help avoid machine downtime and higher maintenance costs — and keep the customer happy.
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How to Start a Hot-Runner Mold That Has No Tip Insulators
Here's a method to assist with efficient dark-to-light color changes on hot-runner systems that are hot-tipped.
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How to Design Three-Plate Molds – Part 3
There are many things to consider, and paying attention to the details can help avoid machine downtime and higher maintenance costs — and keep the customer happy.
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Where and How to Vent Injection Molds: Part 3
Questioning several “rules of thumb” about venting injection molds.
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Solving Issues with Gloss
Your problem may be related to tooling, material, processing, or combinations thereof. Here’s how to find the root cause.
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Back to Basics on Mold Venting (Part 2: Shape, Dimensions, Details)
Here’s how to get the most out of your stationary mold vents.
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Back to Basics on Mold Venting (Part 1)
Here’s what you need to know to improve the quality of your parts and to protect your molds.
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How to Design Three-Plate Molds: Part 2
There are many things to consider, and paying attention to the details can help avoid machine downtime and higher maintenance costs, and keep the customer happy.
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How to Design Three-Plate Molds, Part 1
There are many things to consider, and paying attention to the details can help avoid machine downtime and higher maintenance costs, and keep the customer happy.
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Hot Runners: How to Maintain Heaters, Thermocouples, and Controls
I conclude this three-part examination of real-world problems and solutions involving hot runners by focusing on heaters, thermocouples, and controls. Part 3 of 3.
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Mold Maintenance, Tooling Know How
The ability of technicians in an injection molding shop to fix, modify or upgrade a mold has a huge impact on that company’s bottom line. With this collection of content, we’ve bundled some of the very best advice on repairing and maintaining injection molding machines.
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