{"id":356,"date":"2014-04-28T20:02:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T01:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/?p=356"},"modified":"2024-05-01T20:04:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T01:04:04","slug":"hot-glue-injection-molding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/hot-glue-injection-molding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Glue Injection Molding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hot_glue_injection_molds_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hot_glue_injection_molds_sm.jpg\" alt=\"Hot Glue Injection Molded Parts\" width=\"444\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hot_glue_injection_molds_sm.jpg 444w, https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hot_glue_injection_molds_sm-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought it would be interesting to see how well a simple hot glue gun with standard hot glue could produce injection molded parts.\u00a0 Although the parts did not all turn out perfect I thought the results were pretty impressive considering the simplicity of the method used.\u00a0 Here is a video of my trials.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EPfBXAkOQZQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After my initial trials I poked around on the web a bit and found that this is nothing new. There is even a company that sells an &#8220;Injection Moulding Pack&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindsetsonline.co.uk\">Mind Sets Online.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 The description of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=P3ChKzMGhBI\">You Tube Video<\/a> even talks about polyethylene in the shape of glue sticks.<\/p>\n<p>For more details on the molds I used for these tests and to find out about my homemade plastic injection molding machine see my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Injection_molding\/injection_molding.html\">Home Injection Molding<\/a> web page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought it would be interesting to see how well a simple hot glue gun..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scorchworks.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}