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      "text": "No way!  You've saved my life here!  I've been looking for one of these as a reference! I'm looking to make pony bead style beads, and you are seriously awesome for posting this",
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      "text": "Making beads was a bit of a gamble. We thought we could make it but you never really know until you test the mould on the machine. But as usual Easymould did an incredible work and everything worked smooth from day one. I would say the mould has 95% success rate with sometimes 2-5 beads out of 50 not getting fully injected (probably our fault not loading enough plastic). Overall top mould!"
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      "text": "Nice easymoulds, very important and useful information. Thanks!",
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      "text": "As a first step you have to make sure that your design meets the requirements of injection moulding (like draft angles) and the way your mould is made as well (like minimum tool diameter). To create this kind of large moulds you need relatively low volume parts, so your part volume * number of parts + runners, sprues, gates is smaller than your capacity of your injection moulding machine.\n\nIn our example one bead only weights 0,8g in Polypropylene so we could fit 50pcs in one single mould!\n\nHere you find some recommendations that will ease the process: https://community.preciousplastic.com/academy/create/injection-moulds.",
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