Abstract:
Spray metal tooling is a rapid tooling process, which allows rapid fabrication of moulds for a variety of different manufacturing processes especially injection moulding. An investigation is presented on development of direct spray metal tooling for injection moulding using the fused deposition modelling (FDM) rapid prototyping process. The material used to spray is zinc alloy, which serves as the protective coating for the nylon insert made directly on the FDM process. This study focuses on this new technique and the plastic parts produced by the zinc coated nylon insert on the injection-moulding machine.
Key words:
Spray metal tooling FDM Injection moulding
* Selected from Proceedings of International Symposium of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (ISAMT'2001); revised manuscript July 20, 2002
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