[sdiy] Injection molding and stuff

[Bert Schiettecatte]

Thanks ! Great resource... Unfortunately they are in the US :( if I have
to have all that shipped over it might cost a lot of money.. Any idea
about similar european sources?  

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Arnold [mailto:xyzzy at sysabend.org] 
Sent: vrijdag 13 augustus 2004 0:17
To: Bert Schiettecatte
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Injection molding and stuff


On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:00:57PM +0200, Bert Schiettecatte wrote:
> I know this is not strictly synth DIY but it is DIY! :-) I'm trying to

> figure out an easy way to make 5cm x 5cm x 2cm hollow boxes made of 
> clear plastic .. I need about 20 of those so I'm not really keen on 
> buying acrylic sheets, cutting them and glueing.. So I thought about 
> creating a metal mold somehow and then pouring plastic into the mold. 
> Any ideas on this? I'm not very good at shop skills and stuff but 
> willing to learn.

Do they have to be exactly 5x5x2?  There are *a lot* of companies doing
plastics that have premade things like this in a wide variety of sizes.

Looks like you're in Europe ( anywhere near Brussels?  I was born
there... ) but TAP Plastics is the company I frequent for my needs.

http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/product.php?pid=222&PHPSESSID=2004081215
05521493536550

Plastic boxes in a variety of non-metric sizes ( gotta love the US ).

http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/category.php?bid=33&

Casting resins

http://www.tapplastics.com/shop/category.php?bid=32&

Mold making supplies.

Also TAP will do laser cut pieces and custom glued objects but I've
never priced out Full Service work from them.

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