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Offline Muskygary

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hand pouring bellies in injection molds.
« on: 12/16/15 11:00 UTC »
Just wondering; when you "hand pour" bellies in injection molds do you always leave the mold in the hortizontal position and clamp to the table? When you then inject the second color, you have to leave the injector in the sprue  hole so the plastic won't run out? So your limited to one mold at a time?

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Re: hand pouring bellies in injection molds.
« Reply #1 on: 12/16/15 13:13 UTC »
With simple hand-pour belly the mold can be clamped as usual, then simply injected as usual. I recommend injecting slightly slower to prevent lifting the poured belly. If you are doing the line color on a poured belly, then you want to leave the mold flat, clamped to your table top, and inject from the side. I like to stop the injection when the rod stops but I do keep some pressure  there for a couple seconds. I have a chunk of scrap plastic that I hold on the port after I pull the injector off the mold. Smaller baits you won't have to fret much about leaking plastic but larger volume baits can hold liquid plastic for some time and you want to stop any back flow that might occur.
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Re: hand pouring bellies in injection molds.
« Reply #2 on: 12/17/15 22:15 UTC »
I inject as usual.

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Re: hand pouring bellies in injection molds.
« Reply #3 on: 12/17/15 23:27 UTC »
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I have a chunk of scrap plastic that I hold on the port after I pull the injector off the mold.

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