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Working on a mold component.
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This is the first mold I completed back in 2000. Here, all of the parts are
spread out so you can see how it all goes together. It's a
"10 up mold" which has 10 identical cavities that are molded in one shot.
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This shows the same mold mounted in the molding machine.
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And these are the parts that come out of it.
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Having successfully made a relatively straight forward mold,
the next item on the list was to mold a rather deep cup shape which required some articulation
within the mold itself.
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Here you see a mold base with sides that move outward, away from the part
as it's being ejected. One of the movable sides is removed so you can see the details.
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Here it is in it's assembled form with the core in place.
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This is the core that fits into the mold with movable sides
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These are perhaps the most sophisticated pieces of mold work
that I've done to date.
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And this is the shop where it all happens.
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The next project on the list was to create an enclosure for
a circuit board that would be used as an altimeter for toy rockets. This is how all molds
begin...as chunks of metal.
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You gradually carve away at the blocks to give them form, and then
these pieces are positioned on a larger plate to make the insert that goes into the mold base.
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The altimeter case required two inserts to fit into two different
mold bases. One for the sides of the enclosure...
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and one for the nose cone.
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This is the finished enclosure in a disassembled form with the circuit
board nearby.
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And this is the completely assembled unit with a pen in
the foreground for scale.
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