Hobby Injection Molding

This video shows plastic golf tees being made using a home made injection molding machine.
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25 Responses to “Hobby Injection Molding”

  • djshu:

    @ZennTwex polypropylene

  • paulofpings:

    wow – that must work out so much cheaper than buying regular ready made golfing T’s

  • jeetendrag10:

    thats a really nice little machine

  • TCCindustries:

    I working on a material good for low pressure molding. I believe your process would work. I might need your help to build one for my use.

  • jwp705:

    how do i get info on building one?

  • propfx:

    Hello, i would be interesting in buy your machine too or can you tell vere I can find one for sale?

    Thanks

  • telesniper2:

    How powerful is that pneumatic cylinder on there?

  • ZennTwex:

    @pat60606 PP is Polyprophylen. 😉

  • pat60606:

    Whats PP??

    Do you know where to get em…a website or store or anything….!

  • dklow2002:

    I use natural PP and powder pigments.
    I had the PP pellets on hand, I bought the pigments from Industrial arts supply.

    Thx

  • cjmitz:

    how do you do the metalwork?

  • pat60606:

    Ehy,
    Where do you get the raw plastic pellets,
    can you tell us your supplier…
    Tks

  • quangfjs:

    im interesting to buy your machine, please let me know

  • dklow2002:

    Do a web search for tabletop molding machine or hobby molder. There is an Industrial Arts supply company, can’t remember their web site, that sells machines similar to the one that I made.
    Thanks

  • van8000:

    Could you please tell me where I can buy a plastic modling machine about this size? What you did there is just blow my mind. Really really appreciate if you can help. Thanks

  • 120mar12:

    nice

  • heydanno777:

    Awesome!!!

  • darknessvalley:

    Awesome! If you could post a webpage with plans of how to build it, or even a clearer more well-lighted version of the video which shows more clear upclose shots of each event as it occurs with a bit of narration or captions, that’d be awesome! I’m collecting ideas for making a 7-inch-PVC-disc compression molding machine at home, a big undertaking due to large size of product (records), would love to borrow ideas from yours (have the Gingery book).

  • roninoneone:

    Could you please send me some plans of this machine on my e-mail? :)

  • tommiecosmo:

    My grandfather build one 45 years ago.
    And i still in the bussines
    Egmondir

  • Yakshinian:

    do you have any plans or guides for how to build one? Or perhaps an upcoming video tutorial? 😉

  • dklow2002:

    I combined design elements from a couple of different machines.

  • helium4amc:

    That is a very impressive machine! Did you work from a publicly available plan or is it your own design?

  • basilenglish:

    How many can you put out an hour, if you had to work flat out? My son said thre’s a guy injection moulding in his garage making $15000 a week by himself, it really sounds like a lucrative business to get into!

  • basilenglish:

    So are you putting clear plus color chips?
    Does the color change a bit each time you make them? What is the melting point, around 190 degrees for these chips?
    Just asking as i used to work for a polyprop yarn manufacturer years ago, and the old brain is rusty as ever?? Sorry about all the questions mate i just want to start this as a hobby too