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Using Precision Measurement Tools in Injection Mold Making

By Randy Hough

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Construction of an injection mold without precision instruments is almost impossible. It could happen with a lot of interpolation of sizes and fits, but it would certainly be ineffective.

Well, not so long ago, much of the installation of some form of components rather boring methods. A good example is the finishing touch to the angle of the blade and the corresponding block lock that moves the cursor to the final location.

This adjustment process can happen many ways, but one way is to right starting with the size of the ladder and try it. Hopefully there is enough material to be ground to allow the final assembly. If you think evil in the beginning, you can simply delete the whole camp!

Once you see that you can always remove material, or if you are sure of metal, you can repeat this process until you are able, the form must be completely closed. If you have some blue peak, you can apply on the contact surfaces of the obstacles to be verified.

There are indeed times when it is a very convenient method for mounting, but generally with precision measuring tools is the way to go. Microns deep precision dial indicators, optical comparators, granite surface plates, and all make life much easier in this case.

With the tool of practice, you are supported by the squareness and the size of the base mold core and cavity blocks. They can all figure on the plate surface with a right angle, or are easily controlled with a dial indicator. You can use your final dimensions to verify the size of the bag, and then you can match the finishing touch.

There are many ways to see the lock slide and block check, you can use a sine plate and indicator, or use the optical comparator. You can also view an MMT or coordinate measuring machine, the dimensions and angles.

Sinus with the plate, you know, size and Gage use rolling pin to check the dimensions. This is the most accurate method that is used frequently. You can easily drag blocks within 0.0002, 0.005 mm. It's more than enough for almost all applications of injection molding.

Other branches of the metallurgical industry also use these tools and methods, but for different applications. Work of a great tool maker, but the product is very different. It's like the different types of doctors, they have similar training and use of similar devices, but for totally different applications.

It is always advisable to invest in precision tools of high quality. Since the objective is to produce quality work in as short a time as possible, it makes no sense to skimp on the inspection equipment. Some of the most well measurement tools:

    Starrett precision tools
    Brown and Sharpe Precision
    Height measurement Tesa, micrometers, comparators
    Standard precision micrometer, dial
    Mitutoyo toolmaker microscopes, precision micrometers, dial indicators
    Scherr-Tumico optical comparators
    Micro-Vu Optical Comparators
    Zeiss measuring machines
    Meyer Gage Pins
    Cales CEJohannson

Time to learn the proper technique in the tool is time well spent. Of course, you can make your way through a mess of the project, but common sense is almost always easier, faster and more accurate.