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benny-the-spaceman · 4 months ago

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knowing what i know now about injection molding, i have a lotta respect for whoever lego's mold techs and machine operators are because the tolerances of these bricks must be crazy. ik for most pieces they can just avoid a parting line altogether by putting it at the edge of the brick but you cant do that for a lot of them and a majority of the time the parting line is virtually invisible. most of the time you can still feel and identify the parting line pretty easily but with lego there's so much less flash than usual and i have a lot of respect for that. also theyre usually pretty good about finding inconspicuous spots for the gates (or at least ones that dont downgrade the appearance of the part) while not having any short shots or burns, which for some of these gate locations is really impressive to me

#injection molding is actually rly cool and whoever legos plastics ppl are theyre GOOD #which makes sense obvs but it's still really cool to feel like i know why it's good now #i feel like the dream for me would be tooling for lego. that would be amazing #not even necessarily mold making just tooling for them in general. but alas i dont know danish #also other things i didnt mention #for how many pieces are made of abs there's surprisingly little warping which is impressive for abs #and in the same vein abs is more prone to flash and as i said above there's also very little of that which is again. really cool #alright enough of me talking abt plastics for now but it does excite me haha #ALSO ALSO FEEL FREE TO ASK ME MORE ABOUT INJECTION MOLDING IF YOU WANT ANY EXPLANATIONS OR ELABORATIONS ON WHAT I SAID HERE I LVOE TALKING #BT INJECTION MOLDING I LOVE IT.#haha no pressure 2 tho ofc

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