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Tom Strahler
Feb 7, 2005 - 10:22AM
Re: whats the future of mold building going to bring?

Forecast; Year 2025
All plastic products are being mass produced using a simalar process to stereolithography. Molds are no longer needed, they'er to slow. FYI steel products are also being produced the same way.

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Feb 7th, 2005 - 10:22 AM
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Tom R.
Feb 8, 2005 - 1:08PM
Re: whats the future of mold building going to bring?

Yeah, right.

Can you say.....get a clue!

I have seen a many 64 cavity molds run at 7-9 seconds. I will admit there is a good place for STL or fused deposition, but not to replace injection molding. What about Protomold? They have been know to build and run a mold 4 hours from the PO.

Tom R.

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Tom Strahler
Feb 8, 2005 - 3:36PM
Re: whats the future of mold building going to bring?

Tom R.

I have been in the tooling/plastic industry since 1972 and seen a lot of new developments. NC, CNC, SLA, and so on. If some one in the 70's would have told us that we would be making prototype parts using a laser we would have told them to get a clue as well.

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Chris
Feb 25, 2005 - 10:52PM
Re: whats the future of mold building going to bring?

It is all economy factor that determine the future has nothing to do with any special skills!

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Feb 25th, 2005 - 10:52 PM
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