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mold from wood or steel?

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By cvasilliou - 4/1/2019 4:50:39 PM

Guys I want to know how much is the cycle of a wooden mold and one made out of steel. What i want to know is what's better for a mass production part. Let's say 1000 pieces. I believe steel will be less expensive, because we can use it to make more parts. What's your thought?
By cvasilliou - 4/3/2019 8:56:22 PM

Fasta - 4/3/2019 1:30:15 PM
cvasilliou - 4/3/2019 9:48:04 AM
scottracing - 4/2/2019 6:47:12 PM
How many parts do you want to make?
Tooling board is usually about 3 to 10 parts as it degrades after every cure.
Aluminium tool will last a good few hundred to thousands of parts if you look after it.
Carbon prepreg tool is hundreds into a 1000 plus parts if you look at it.
Then tool steels like p20 that are very expensive will last thousands.

That helped me a lot thank you so much.

I am just preparing a presentation,where I have to say what molds should be used for mass production parts. Now all i want to find is how many parts considered as mass produstion!

Mass production may be 10+ of the steel moulds? $$

Well I hope not cause all my research will be a nothing....I hope mass production ti be cinsidered for 30+ composite parts