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Rapid Injection Molding Design Guide

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The QuickTool Express process can instantly quote and manufacture plastic parts that fall within certain defined limits of size and volume. Parts that qualify for Rapid Injection Molding must be designed as straight-pull parts. A part made with a straight-pull mold is designed such that when the two halves of the mold pull straight away from each other, there is no mold metal that wants to pass through the part plastic (an impossible, 'die locked' situation). Undercuts on the part require mold pieces to pull out sideways, perpendicular to the direction of pull. These are called side actions. Parts with undercuts are not available within the Rapid Injection Molding process. However, undercuts are easily produced using either Low-Volume Injection Molding or Production Injection Molding.
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Plastic molding services use a number of different molding techniques to produce components, including thermoplastic and thermoset injection molding, blow molding (includes injection blow molding), rotational molding, thermoforming, structural foam molding, compression molding, resin transfer molding (RTM), and others.  Search by Specification | Learn more about Plastic Molding Services
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Product Announcements
ProtoCAM - Urethane Casting, Molding & Moldmaking
There are many urethane casting materials, making this the ideal approach when your production material is going to be a plastic injection molded resin. After your stereolithography (SLA) prototype... (read more)
Hadlock Plastics LLC - Molding Services
Hadlock Plastics offers several processes for the molding of reinforced thermoset composites. Their primary process is compression molding. This method can support both high and low volume... (read more)
Micro Plastics, Inc. - Custom Injection Molding Services
Micro Plastics would like the oppportunity to quote on your custom injection molding requirements. We provide a complete turnkey in-house system from part design to final production. (read more)
Protomold - Design Resources
Not only is Protomold the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to get short run injection molded parts, we also strive to be the most helpful. We provide design guidelines, material advice,... (read more)
RedEye On Demand - Rapid Manufacturing - In Lieu of Injection Molding
Direct Digital Manufacturing — Layered Production In Lieu of Tooling and Injection Molding! Our customers are utilizing parts built from Layered Production technology, FDM, in ways we never... (read more)
MOCAP, Inc. - ISO9001 Quality Plastic & Rubber Molded Components
MOCAP offers complete in-house mold-making capabilities and manufacturing operations to produce your next custom plastic or rubber component. Unique to MOCAP is our ability to produce products through... (read more)
Topics of Interest
Injection molding is the most prevalent way to make plastic components because it is economical, efficient and accurate. In working with this method, product designers must account for both the mold... (Read More)
Silicone rubber molding is a perfect solution to fill the gap between one-off rapid prototyping and prototype injection molding. Silicone molds produce urethane castings that are used for functional... (Read More)
For several years rapid tools made using stereolithography (SL) technology have been tried for injection molding thermoplastic parts. Success has been very limited due to low strength, inadequate... (Read More)
An injection mold for a water manifold was experiencing deflection on an extremely long core, causing a high defect rate on the finished product. In addition, inserted small plastic capillaries were... (Read More)
10.1 CASE STUDY: DEFECT REDUCTION IN INJECTION MOLDING A MULTIFACTOR LEAN CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGN APPROACH 10.1.1 Scope of Injection Molded Parts A great deal of emphasis has been placed on... (Read More)
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Can it be done?

Can it be done?
Hadlock Plastics LLC


DSM Somos DMX -SL 100 Stereolithography Resin

DSM Somos DMX -SL 100 Stereolithography Resin
Applied Rapid Technologies Corporation


Torlon Bearing Retainers

Torlon Bearing Retainers
Putnam Precision Molding, Inc.


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