Rated X wrote:Looking good. I always wondered why they dont "test" the mold in its proper collors ? Finally gonna have a real classics wheelie instead of an orange jazz or a micky ds legends toy.
They run test shots in whatever plastic is currently loaded in the mold machines. It's quite a process purging injectors for new plastic types and colors. When I was doing QA for plastic parts a number of years ago, I worked pretty closely with one of our vendors. Test shots are used to see tolerances and to set other options like plastics temperature during mold runs. They will usually run a test shot between other longer production runs.
So, let's say that the molding vendor is currently running dark grey plastic for gears in a printer, and that the plastic is very close to what will be used in Ollie. Then the vendor needs to switch molds to a different sized gear. After they pull the previous gear mold, and likely while they are cleaning it and prepping it for storage, they can insert the Ollie mold and run a few pieces. Then they'll pull the Ollie mold and start on the new gear mold. To also purge the plastic from the system, especially if it has to be done twice as the new gears are probably not gold/orange, can add hours to the process, and create a lot of scrap parts in the production gears. Just as an example.
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