Ebooks to Download
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YS (Yick Sang) Texture Book
YS is a well-known supplier for mold texturing in China. This book will provide you a reference of YS mold texture. You will be able to see the three popular texture patterns in this book:
Draft for surface finish
Drafts are a must for injection molded parts, which will help release the plastic parts from molds. In this PDF file, you will learn what drafts required for different surface finish:
Pantone Color Chart
It is important to have an idea of what part color will be for your plastic part before tooling. Pantone is an authority for color matching.
Wall thickness for injection molded parts
Wall thickness is one of the important factors to injection moldings. Non-uniform thickness is the main reason to cause sink marks. In this PDF you will have a general idea of wall thickness based on materials:
Standard Tolerance for Plastic Molded Part
Before tooling, you should let the mold makers know what tolerance you would like to choose. There are many cases that customers have an argument with mold makers for the tolerance after the plastic parts were made.
This would be too late as tolerance will decide tooling and molding solution. In this PDF file, you will see:
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