We finished the molds yesterday. Here's a nice picture of them installed in a line of presses. It took a little longer than I had hoped, but not too long considering the additional requirements that were added & the other interuptions that stole time away from this project.
I look forward to the day when I see one of these delineator bases out in "the real world"!

Production is underway at my day job on the 20 mold project. My department had a small personnel problem, and a 3 day equipment break-down. Those 2 things put us a little behind schedule but we'll soon recover. One aspect of the design is still up in the air, and that is which air poppets we will use to blow the part out of the mold. The main trouble is the poppets are steel & the molds are aluminum, the aluminum operates at an elevated temperature which makes the aluminum expand. When the air blast is blown through the poppet, the steel poppet cools and contracts and the poppet comes out of the mold. To make a long story short; I may end up designing my own air poppet to best fit our application, depends on what the president opts for.

Production is underway at my day job on the 20 mold project. My department had a small personel problem, and a 3 day equipment break-down. Those 2 things put us a little behind scheduel but we'll soon recover.  One aspect of the design is still up in the air, and that is which air poppets we will use to blow the part out of the mold.  The main trouble is the poppets are steel & the molds are aluminum, the aluminum operates at an elevated temperature which makes the aluminum expand. When the air blast is blown through the poppet, the steel poppet cools and contracts and the poppet comes out of the mold. To make a long story short; I may end up designing my own air poppet to best fit our application, depends on what the president opts for.

Mobil life

So I finally got onboard with the iPhone; yesterday the 3GS was released & I got me one. Having an Internet savy phone is now a necesity in my life. The benefits that I need from one are maps & gps in the palm of my hand, the ability to email & view attachments anytime, and being able to access real webpages like my online bank page, or pages where I buy things. So while having this device will surely help me meet the demands of my life, I bet the demands of life will just increase to fill in the space created by the technological assist - such is life
Updated via my iPhone. For my next trick I will upload a photo from the phone - or maybe a video...