Dude, that is cool! How long does it take to create a plastic part? Does plastic pour into mold, heat, hardens, and pop out?
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Yeah I’ll post a video of parts being made in production.
Tons of tiny little like beads or plastic balls get funneled into like a barrel
They typically have heater coils and shit essentially melting the plastic beads/ raw material into like liquid form
Then In the press a shot is made
With the 2 half’s closed up together
It takes a few seconds to cool then opens up and a robot arm comes down with sucking cups to grab part and drop on conveyor belt then drops into a box
Then fully self driving forklifts grab box’s and move to shipping
It’s wild
After typing this out as a bitcoiner I had a thought
If they were mining bitcoin could use the heat to melt plastic
They paying electric cost for the heaters anyway just not getting sats
I should be the president of the company lol
Seriously! What are they currently generating the heat with? I would bet they need burst of really high heat on demand.
The only thing is mining has a lower heat differential than coils. So the max heat is not as good as traditional coil. But you could do consistent high heat all day :)
Gotta keep usually around 500 or 550 degrees f
Yeah consistent heat
U see all those long skinny pins sticking out of that plate?
Those are what we call ejector pins
And u see all the holes in the mold base ? Those pins slide through those holes and push the part off for the robot to grab… 👀 