Custom plastic lens manufacuring

[Linus Tremaine]

I am interested in reproducing a 4" yellow plastic automotive lens in large(ish) quantity. Maybe 500 lenses to start. Does anyone here have a suggestion for a plastic moulding company that does this type of work?

 

Thanks

[West Peterson]

Dave Bowman does really nice work. North Carolina. I saw his lenses in Gettysburg at the Annual Convention this year. They look like glass.

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[61polara]

West, thanks for the referral, but my process really isn't workable for high volume work.  There are several people I know in AACA who have experience in injection molding that I'll reach out to if no one responds.

Edited March 16, 2022 by 61polara (see edit history)

[Linus Tremaine]

34 minutes ago, 61polara said:

West, thanks for the referral, but my process really isn't workable for high volume work.  There are several people I know in AACA who have experience in injection molding that I'll reach out to if no one responds.

Dave,

i was going with a 500 quantity in hopes of buying several years worth of supply to get the cost down. I really would only be needing smaller quantities (maybe 20) but at somewhat regular intervals. If nothing else that I find makes sense maybe we can still try to work together. Its hard to ignore such a good review from west! 

 

 

[bryankazmer]

Your quantity of 20 at a time seems more like what one would cast, not injection mold.  For  500 parts, a tooling source is more important than the molder - you may decrease the cost if you do as an insert that can fit in a standard "MUD" frame - lots of small molders have those. I assume you're going to use PMMA for the lens.

[61polara]

Linus

Contact me and we can discuss.

Dave Bowman

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