Looking to make my own injection mould


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Hi there,

I am looking to make an injection mould to create a replacement frame for my TV. The current frame is damaged and i was thinking i could somehow make a mould of the original frame, use some kind of resin to create a new frame and then simply attatch the new one on. Any ideas on how to go about this? As i'm a total novice when comes to composites any help and advice will be much appreciated

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chrisgray (24/01/2012)
Hi there,

I am looking to make an injection mould to create a replacement frame for my TV. The current frame is damaged and i was thinking i could somehow make a mould of the original frame, use some kind of resin to create a new frame and then simply attatch the new one on. Any ideas on how to go about this? As i'm a total novice when comes to composites any help and advice will be much appreciated

Chris Gray
what are you actualy asking? to make mold you can inject hot plastic into or to make a composite copy of the frame using fibreglass or carbon?

try looking for the same tv thats going cheap due to it being faulty and get the housing from it.


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Hi Chris,

I think you want to make a mould of an injection moulded part, not make an injection mould (they're a specific kind of mould, very heavy, designed to take a lot of pressure).

Can you take a picture of the frame, maybe then we can understand it better? Unless it's a pretty simply shape (injection moulded parts can be VERY cimplicated, particularly on the inside perhaps where it mates up with the screen) then it might have a lot of complications which would need resolving before it could realistically be made as a composite part.

--Matt

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