Any Injection Moulders on here, before I buy Chinese ?

[Chaz]

hi Chaz - Thanks for your kind offer, but if I am correct the material cost alone would be over a fiver each at 60g. Still if you fancy making a few thousand let me know
I do have some of these items, just looking for new supplier.

Thanks
Simon

A few thousand ... ok then. Send me the file if you can - my curiosity and Ill cost it up :-) (and see if its something that can be printed).

[martin54]

A few thousand ... ok then. Send me the file if you can - my curiosity and Ill cost it up :-) (and see if its something that can be printed).

Wasting your time Chaz if you are running a business, on the volume that Bazzer wants you shouldn't be able to get close in price if your charging properly, material costs will be higher, filament v pellets & it will take far more time for the job as well, once the mold is made an injection molding machine will spit out 1000 of these in no time.
Only reason I mentioned printing to start with was because I thought Bazzer was looking for a one off which would make injection molding very expensive with the cost of a mold.
On small quantities & prototyping then yes printing is probably far cheaper than injection molding but not on large volumes.

[Chaz]

Wasting your time Chaz if you are running a business, on the volume that Bazzer wants you shouldn't be able to get close in price if your charging properly, material costs will be higher, filament v pellets & it will take far more time for the job as well, once the mold is made an injection molding machine will spit out 1000 of these in no time.
Only reason I mentioned printing to start with was because I thought Bazzer was looking for a one off which would make injection molding very expensive with the cost of a mold.
On small quantities & prototyping then yes printing is probably far cheaper than injection molding but not on large volumes.

Agreed, I just wanted to see how well I could make the part. Ive seen what it is - not complex but yes, unlikely to print 1000's even on my larger CM1 'el monstro' printer ...