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    Posted: 24 Mar 2013 at 8:16am
i just spotted this nifty home workshop injection molding machine on you tube
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Very interesting would have been nice to see the finished product in the mould.

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thanks Brad
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not bad eh?,it'd be interesting to see how much one of these costs
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Chris..the webstore shows US $1850.00
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thanks Brad thats not too bad if you were a professional soft plastic maker you'd make that money back pretty quick.getting molds custom made might be expensive though
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Chris, the actual moulds they do are well priced...and there's always the manual injector that is priced within reach of most.

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I wonder if a pot used to cast lead sinkers, like the bottom pour by Lee, if you leave the temp setting to low, say around 1 or 2, not sure what temp that would be, if that would work for melting the plastic, mixing and then pouring from that pot to the http://www.hangplas.co.uk/plastic_moulding_services.php - injection mold?
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those hangplas molds are actually dies for industrial injection molding machines James,you don't need anything as elaborate as that(or as expensive!).I'm not sure about the Lee product but its a good idea maybe it could work
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