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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joe2Lmaker" data-source="post: 484348" data-attributes="member: 2663">1. Take a look at the size of that part.2. Just off the top of your head, estimate the shot size.3. How large a press would you need to fully pack a cavity with that shot size? (Guessing plus or minus 50 tons is close enough)4. What kind of tooling would you need to run in that press?And these parts are less expensive than machined parts? I doubt that the demand for sliders is high enough to offset the cost of the tooling.I'm suspicious. Someone is cutting corners somewhere. A look at the part seems to support my suspicion that the molder does not have the process in control. I doubt this is the press operator’s fault.We could settle this by sending the parts to <a href="https://www.thepolymerlab.com/" target="_blank">The Polymer Lab</a> in Hopkins, MN.</blockquote>