Interesting to see your success with the Morgan Press. About 20 years ago I picked up one of these used for $1500. It was owned by Gillette Razor. It was a great introduction to injection molding. I had a CNC mill so I made my own molds. I found the clamp force marginal for many of my parts. I ultimately bought a used 80 metric ton 4 oz machine that was used to make CD's. It was a high quality machine that solved many molding problems. I studied mold design and eventually made a bunch of mold bases out of steel. I even bought EDM machines to make molds. All of this was for in house parts only. I replaced the machine with a nice all electric model of 110mt clamp force. A real mold machine will make parts that are of much higher quality and consistency. It will make them much faster 5-10X. In many cases it can make parts continuously without much user intervention. It will also use a wide variety of plastics. More clamp force will handle bigger molds for larger parts or more cavities for more parts per cycle. You can build molds to a standard that will run on any standard machine. If you need to you can parts made outside. I run modest lots (500) of a part at a time, and don't run that often, but when I do I am often making something for 50 cents that I used t machine for $50. The little Morgan press got it all started. A very capable used full size molding machine is half the cost of the Morgan. JY
Thank you for your comment. I am sorry that my response is late getting back to you. I am in awe of your experience; it far exceeds what we have accomplished in injection molding. Where would one try to find a "good" "used" injection molding machine such as what you speak of?
@@yablabo Well, it depends on your need. Of course you can do many parts 10x as fast on a fully automated machine. But: you need an (expensive) tool for ejecting the parts correctly. And the more complex the part is, the much(!) more expensive the tool will be (threads etc.) That is where a simple stand-up machine like the Morgan press can let you create complex parts *without* complex tools, because you can disassemble the molds by hand. There is no need to take care of a good deforming (and the restrictions you have). And for inlays you of course need an arm (robotic or human) to get the inlays on their correct position. All this is not easy on normal industrial machines. Another advantage: a Morgan needs very small space in your room and its easy to move it on simple rolls :-) I like the Morgan machine but we cannot buy it in Germany :-/ May be I wil get a used one one day - or I have to build a similar on my own (may be with hydraulics) :-) So may be you can show us more of the mechanics of your Morgan press :-)
@@yablabo Thanks for your message, I'm sure I will take you up on that :-). You should consider joining this facebook group though, a lot of morgan press owners and sharing tips & tricks: facebook.com/groups/2206675146227501
Interesting to see your success with the Morgan Press. About 20 years ago I picked up one of these used for $1500. It was owned by Gillette Razor. It was a great introduction to injection molding. I had a CNC mill so I made my own molds. I found the clamp force marginal for many of my parts. I ultimately bought a used 80 metric ton 4 oz machine that was used to make CD's. It was a high quality machine that solved many molding problems. I studied mold design and eventually made a bunch of mold bases out of steel. I even bought EDM machines to make molds. All of this was for in house parts only. I replaced the machine with a nice all electric model of 110mt clamp force. A real mold machine will make parts that are of much higher quality and consistency. It will make them much faster 5-10X. In many cases it can make parts continuously without much user intervention. It will also use a wide variety of plastics. More clamp force will handle bigger molds for larger parts or more cavities for more parts per cycle. You can build molds to a standard that will run on any standard machine. If you need to you can parts made outside. I run modest lots (500) of a part at a time, and don't run that often, but when I do I am often making something for 50 cents that I used t machine for $50. The little Morgan press got it all started. A very capable used full size molding machine is half the cost of the Morgan.
JY
Thank you for your comment. I am sorry that my response is late getting back to you. I am in awe of your experience; it far exceeds what we have accomplished in injection molding. Where would one try to find a "good" "used" injection molding machine such as what you speak of?
@@yablabo Well, it depends on your need. Of course you can do many parts 10x as fast on a fully automated machine.
But: you need an (expensive) tool for ejecting the parts correctly. And the more complex the part is, the much(!) more expensive the tool will be (threads etc.)
That is where a simple stand-up machine like the Morgan press can let you create complex parts *without* complex tools, because you can disassemble the molds by hand. There is no need to take care of a good deforming (and the restrictions you have). And for inlays you of course need an arm (robotic or human) to get the inlays on their correct position. All this is not easy on normal industrial machines.
Another advantage: a Morgan needs very small space in your room and its easy to move it on simple rolls :-)
I like the Morgan machine but we cannot buy it in Germany :-/
May be I wil get a used one one day - or I have to build a similar on my own (may be with hydraulics) :-)
So may be you can show us more of the mechanics of your Morgan press :-)
thanks for sharing! i just got one of these machines for a product that i'm currently 3d printing, so i'm trying to learn as much about it as possible
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@@yablabo Thanks for your message, I'm sure I will take you up on that :-). You should consider joining this facebook group though, a lot of morgan press owners and sharing tips & tricks: facebook.com/groups/2206675146227501
@@engineeredaf1920 thank you for informing me about that group.