plastic/metal hybrid mold
plastic/metal hybrid mold
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I have a thin sheet metal part that I'm looking to do for lack of a better word over-mold. It's an electronic enclosure that will have a sheet metal part embedded into part of it. I've been searching the net but haven't come up with any good sites that address design issues. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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RE: plastic/metal hybrid mold
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: plastic/metal hybrid mold
I have seen a moulding press and fancy tooling, making a drawn and pierced steel pressing (strip fed) on the top half an injection mould tool, a robot transferring this to another cavity where a rubber seal was moulded onto the steel part.
Hope this helps
Cheers
Harry
RE: plastic/metal hybrid mold
If you can't find it elsewhere, I may be able to find my copy and scan it for you.
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RE: plastic/metal hybrid mold
Pat/all, If you Google "outsert molding" (with the incorrect spelling) you get mainly Ticona stuff (used to be Hoechst/Celcon) hits. They seem to be pushing it these days too.
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Harry
RE: plastic/metal hybrid mold
Polyplastics was a joint venture with Celenese, so probably part of Ticona now
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