http://techkits.com/pim/

I only skimmed through... looks cool, and the pricing seams very
reasonable... is it a scam/joke?

On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Chris Holden <

but quite a fun tool - and I like the idea of some of the different
plastics you can use.

I also might be a bit concerned with the pressure needed to force the
plastic in - hopefully it's be quite low, but a drill press isn't
designed to exert huge pressure is it?

James

On Feb 14, 4:46 pm, Justin Nel <dogbertuk2...@gmail.com> wrote:

My first thought was that it was using the drill stand simply as an arm
to go up and down which seemed a bit inefficient (and also unlikely to
get the pressure required for "proper" injection moulding) so I guessed
that maybe the actual drill was used somewhere to turn something and
ramp up the pressure? I don't really know and the video isn't very clear
about how it works - my guess is that once it's obvious how it works,
something similar could be "hacked together" for a fraction of the price!

I've a powerful but slow CNC machine which can mill (mild) steel (I set
the router bit too low it and carved a lovely guitar shape out of the
cutting bed) Steve and Matt have put together an awesome, fast, CNC
framework that just needs a bit of time to finish off. So with plenty of
lubrication and multiple passes, making a mould from a block of
something like aluminium isn't unfeasible.

Moving off the original topic of "is this injection moulding machine for
real" and into "here's something interesting about injection moulding:
http://www.castcraft.com/injection-molding-machine-images.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_injection_molding

The last link on this page sounds interesting - use a 3d printer to make
a mould....
http://www.injectionmolder.net/moldmaking.htm

On 14/02/2012 18:42, James Heath wrote: