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If you have a plastic or elastomeric (rubber-like) part which you would like to have prototyped, or produced in volume, contact us. We will be happy to review your needs. We will hold your ideas in strictest confidence as we examine them. When you are ready, we will provide a quote for desired services, based upon your job. Often, changes are made to the part design to improve its performance and to reduce the cost of tooling. If you are in the early stages of design, considerable savings may be made by determining these criteria before prototyping. For those who have not designed a plastic part before, becoming acquainted with plastics and moldmaking technology will be of a tremendous value to you as there are major differences in designing with various materials and manufacturing processes. Begin now with a phone call to us and we will give you a short preliminary consultation at no cost. Afterwards you may wish to send drawings for a formal evaluation, or to put your parts into immediate production. Or email me . We are also partnering with other firms on an international basis. Through these partnerships we are able to offer an extended range of services from pure art objects through a complete design and manufactureing process on injection presses (to 1000 ton). Rapid Prototyping of medium sized objects (eleven inches per side) is our latest additional service to be added, and is available at $60/hr. We can work from and existing part, 2D drawing, or just your idea and create physical prototypes as well as the injections molds and assembled, finished, product in quantity. Frank Davies A Robot vacuum cleaner. Cleans your floors, automatically by itself.  Roomba Floor Vac Robot |
Below, are a few books which are intended to help our customers, and competition alike in understanding the processes involved. The first book, (108 Injection Molds) is among my all time favorite books, and I recommend it to everyone who would make a plastic part or injection mold. I consider it to be accurate, complete, lucid, detailed, precise. You will find that the mold needed to make your part has been included and that inventing a new mechanism to mold your part is no longer a major consideration. The book presents 108 molds precisely drawn (just like you will do before making your molds. You could learn the ins and outs of drafting for precision mold making if not careful. ;) I found myself reading and studying the molds one at a time from cover to cover. They start out simple and progress. I returned to it often, finding solutions to mold design problems already worked out and nicely indexed. There is a narrative which explains each molds features, and much more as well. If I were to own only one book on moldmaking this would be it for sure.
Frank Davies By Hans Gastrow, E. Lindner (Editor), P. Unger (Editor): Injection Molds: 108 Proven Designs 
By Robert A. Malloy: Plastic Part Design for Injection Molding : An Introduction 
By Paul A. Tres: Designing Plastic Parts for Assembly 
By Douglas M. Bryce: Plastic Injection Molding: Mold Design and Construction Fundamentals (Fundamentals of Injection Molding) 
By Douglas M. Bryce: Plastic Injection Molding: Product Design & Material Selection Fundamentals (Vol II: Fundamentals of Injection Molding) 
By Georg Menges, Walter Michaeli, Paul Mohren: How to Make Injection Molds 
Design for Manufacturing: A Structured Approach By: Corrado Poli If you are interested in inventing and design, you will need an understanding of processes involved and their relative merits. This is an excellent overview of the tools and processes you will find in an industrial area. Very practical. Handbook of Chemistry and Physics By: David R. Lide  This is a LIBRARY of data which I have nearly worn out from use. I suggest it everyone, (even an old worn out copy is better than being without this excellent work.) We also have located a video you may find of interest. Fundamental Manufacturing Processes, Plastic Injection Molding video. Injection molding is the most common method of producing parts out of plastic material. It is an extremely versatile process that is capable of producing parts with a wide range of attributes. Using shop floor footage and animated sequences this video focuses on the injection molding machine and the injection mold to illustrate the injection molding process. The injection machine section covers in detail both the machines' injection system and the clamping system. In step by step progression, plastic material is followed from it's raw material state through the melting process and onto it's injection into the mold. Throughout the sequence, various components of the injection machine are explained. The mold section continues this examination, allowing clear definition of mold terms as the molten material is formed, cooled, and ejected as the final part. also featured in the mold segment are the common mold types, including the two-plate cold runner mold, three-plate cold runner mold, the hot runner mold, and the insulated runner mold. this tape concludes with a section on injection machine controls. Here, the role of computers in daily shop floor activities is augmented with an examination of computer aided injection mold and part design.. Click here for more information. |
