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RE: Is this bad design?
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Nov 2001 19:34:06 GMT
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Adrian Drake writes:
I suspect it's due to the way that plastic parts are made.
They have to have a draft, or an angle on all vertical walls,
in order for them to be removed from the mold.

Do you still need draft if the mold has ejector pins?
--Bram


Bram Lambrecht
bram@cwru.edu
www.bldesign.org



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  Re: Is this bad design?
 
(...) Hmm, never heard of Bouncers called "ejector pins"? Would beer in a bottle result in a different trajectory? (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
  Re: Is this bad design?
 
Yes, even with pnuematic or hydraulic ejectors you'd still design the mold with some draft. Bram Lambrecht <bram@cwru.edu> wrote in message news:000201c16ed5$a8...1681@bl... (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: Is this bad design?
 
I suspect it's due to the way that plastic parts are made. They have to have a draft, or an angle on all vertical walls, in order for them to be removed from the mold. Over small distances, or when reinforced in a 3-d structure, this draft doesn't (...) (23 years ago, 16-Nov-01, to lugnet.general)

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