Defstartrooper wrote:
you wouldn't use vinyl for injection moulding,but you have a point i'm wondering why they would invest money in what would be a short run in tooling for injection moulding which is far more expensive than rotocast vinyl would be.
They wouldn't be able to produce injection moulded trooper helmets either only with a very complicated set of tooling which would require some major precision engineering and they would still have seam lines.
The best option would be 2 to 4 parts so assembly would be needed,the advantage would be that parts could be produced that don't need trimming like with vacuum forming.
I wont be surprised to see either a rotocast helmet or none at all though.
I would just love to see one, see if its worth its salt in the $100 market, thats all.
I understand the details of the molding process, my father has been in the plastic industry for over 35 years, 33 in injection molding & engineering, so I hear about it all the time
They could have taken 1 to 3 different ways to make the tooling (not fact, just convo points) that I figure on to be cost effective, but depending on their overseas partners in the tooling and manufacturing is going to dictate where they reached the price point of $110 and the need to make more.
Duh, right?
I only bring it up in that they made have made nicer injection molds and run a better injection process with a higher grade of abs (or not) and the need to make more to recoup their costs may be to our benefit.
Granted, it is what it is...just want to see one, and some details if possible.