{"id":73,"date":"2010-10-05T23:08:17","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T04:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2010-10-13T11:11:03","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T16:11:03","slug":"october-meeting-injection-molding-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2010\/october-meeting-injection-molding-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"October Meeting &#8211; Injection Molding Demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Really cool demonstration from Scott on injection molding, he fabricated a small hand driven injection molder using the book: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Secrets-Building-Plastic-Injection-Molding\/dp\/1878087193\">Secrets of Building a Plastic Injection Molding Machine<\/a> as a guide.  The end result is a functional machine capable of injecting plastic into a variety of parts, all fabricated from basic tools and a small lathe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00033.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-74\" title=\"October S67 Meeting\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00033-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00033-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00033.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Applying pressure:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00043.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-75\" title=\"Applying Pressure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00043-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00043-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/DSC00043.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Unfortunately the shear pins let loose while applying a little too much pressure to inject plastic, but he of course brought along some &#8220;production&#8221; parts that show incredible potential for so little cost.<\/p>\n<p>Mold:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2425.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2425-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2425\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2425-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2425.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Product: (wheels)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2427.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2427-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hobby Injection molded wheels\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-97\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2427-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2427.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two shots with the injection molder or with two colors of plastic yields different color hubs\/color swirls<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2433.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2433-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2433\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2433-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2433.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2435.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2435-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2435\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-99\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2435-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2435.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2436.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[73]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2436-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2436\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2436-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/IMG_2436.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the pictures Scott!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Really cool demonstration from Scott on injection molding, he fabricated a small hand driven injection molder using the book: Secrets of Building a Plastic Injection Molding Machine as a guide. The end result is a functional machine capable of injecting<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2010\/october-meeting-injection-molding-demo\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[45,42,44,43],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-broken","tag-injection-molding","tag-monthly-meeting","tag-sector67"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}