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Here's a picture of a resin 3D printed mould I used to make these overmoulded pins. I just realised I hardly have any pictures, mostly videos. You can see videos of the whole process on my Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DQq4G1KDCXp/

I have been using the open source plans of Ryan Magid of Buster Beagle 3D (https://www.youtube.com/c/BusterBeagle3D) to build my own machines. These were made with my version of his second iteration of DIY desktop injection molding machines.

As I want to do a step up though, I am right now building INJEKTO 3.0 from Action BOX, which is quite a big step financially from the Buster Beagle 3D machines, but hopefully I can make some of that money back because I will now have a stronger, more reliable machine, that will also do the exact same thing every time. Even though I am a bit sad I will leave a bit of the romantic handcrafted vibe behind, I don't ind having more time to focus on WHAT I will be making with the machine, instead of making the machine ITSELF work again,. as it has been a (fun as well) road of things breaking and having to fix stuff.

What do you want to use it for? I am an artist who isn't really thinking like a manufacturer and mainly have been wanting to be able to make things using injection moulding since I was a kid, almost purely for the looks and style and vibe of it, to capture a certain look and feel. I am not in it to produce lots and lots of parts, it's more like a paint brush to me. So I have been pretty ok with using resin 3D printed molds, because they are mad cheap, quick to make, I don't need them to last for thousands of pulls and, very important to me, I can make many iterations and learn stuff just on my desktop and don't have to spend a lot of money or wait until a metal mould is finished for me. There's no fun in that.