I dug out my old camcorder and took a
video of the mold
Then I hooked it up to my new Snappy and
"snapped" a "photo" of the video, and here it
is... The mold could be done by now if I wasn't
playing with all these cool computer toys!
NOTE: Go here to see: another mold photo.
On the left is the "B" plate, above it is the
ejector plate with 4 return pins in the corners
and a few ejector pins, the other plate is the
"A" side. In the center of the "A" plate is
the main sprue (MS Word 7.0 didn't have
this word, my old 10 pound dictionary has:
(1880) 1 : the hole through which metal or
plastic is poured into the gate and thence
into a mold ) and just below it is the
connector cavity with key and 4 insert
pins. The stuff located above the main
sprue is for an old project.
It's all called a 5x5 MUD insert (aluminum)
and it fits (with spacers) in my 5x8 MUD base
which is semi-permanently bolted into
my 88 ton Arburg press.
MUD lets cool guys change molds quickly by
creating a standard. Joe makes the 5x5 MUD
insert blanks for me out of aluminum.
I checked the e-mails at 2pm... about
15 more requests since 8pm last night ....
down from 2 per hour to about 1 per hour.
Several of you have some very cool ideas,
especially for International shipping.
More later ..... Day 3 ...
9/96 update: Thanks goes to:
Kalle of South Africa who suggested
how I might spell "sprue" so I
fixed that and added the dictionary
definition since it was at hand.
(my prior spelling since 1/96 was "sprew"
which is not in any dictionary I
can find, ... another first?)