ericb45696
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What the wood "chip" Yetis and Innova minis ?I build and repair injection molds for a living. I can guarantee nobody is putting real metal flakes into the plastics. That would be disastrous for the mold.
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What the wood "chip" Yetis and Innova minis ?I build and repair injection molds for a living. I can guarantee nobody is putting real metal flakes into the plastics. That would be disastrous for the mold.
What the wood "chip" Yetis and Innova minis ?
Ive never seen what you're referring to. Im new to this world lol
I build and repair injection molds for a living. I can guarantee nobody is putting real metal flakes into the plastics. That would be disastrous for the mold.
My first instinct is to agree with you, but a quick google search shows several suppliers of aluminum metal flakes/glitter for use in plastic injection molding. I think it's actually metal flake. Just very small and thin enough to not mess with anything.
We work with a lot of high temp, high glass fill materials (PET, PPA with 30+% glass) in my industry and those tend to wear out prototype aluminum tooling very quickly. I would guess metal flake in urethane, PP or TPE wouldn't be any more abrasive (probably less).