On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Vitaliy <piclist@maksimov.org> wrote:
> M.L. wrote:
>> An aluminum mold is still in the very expensive category
>
> What makes you say so? We didn't make aluminum molds, but we had a local
> machine shop fabricate a custom piece made out of aluminum, which had many
> of the features you would find in a mold. It only cost a coupld of hundred
> bucks
>
> Vitaliy
>

I've been through the process of getting a plastic enclosure made. We
wanted to do an injection molded part but the tooling was going to be
expensive, even with a cheaper aluminum mold. It depends on the size
of the object, but it was going to be many thousand. Maybe you can get
tooling made by a third party but I doubt most plastics places would
be willing to use third-party tools. They don't make much money off of
the impressions.


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