Thought I would share here how my time has been spent the last couple weeks. I decided I wanted a benchtop injection molder to fool with and prototype with, and with the backing of one of my IRL friends we have decided to go ahead and purchase one of the nicer (in our price range) benchtop injection molding devices.
My first project with this is going to be PCB mount stabs. So before even purchasing the unit I decided to start with the mold design first as the machine itself is much easier to attain then getting a mold done.
My plan is to improve on the cherry PCB stab a little and be able to produce colored, clear and swirled stabs. I have spent a good amount of time so far re-creating a pre-clipped cherry stab in CAD and heres my progress so far:
This model is far from complete (especially the rear of the casing needs to be hollowed out more) but its pretty far along. There is some design aspects that im going to completely eliminate, but for now im just working on making a faithful recreation of the cherry stab before I go and re-design the innards.
Im looking for some input on what you guys think could improve the cherry PCB stabilizer. If you have any ideas please let me know, or let me know what you think!
Just imagine actual cool looking stabs instead of black. And I will be able to mold them out of other stuff besides ABS!!
