implmex
Diamond
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2002
- Location
- Vancouver BC Canada
Good morning All:
I have a customer for whom I designed and prototyped a bunch of parts that are perfect for metal injection molding, going into production.
It's a dental project, and the ideal material is titanium, either CP2 or Ti6Al4V.
The problem is we cannot find a titanium MIM molder that will take this on without demanding the best part of a half million bucks for engineering fees and mold builds etc etc.
I can build a proper production quality MIM mold with interchangeable inserts for about 20 grand (I'd be stealing an existing mold and re-purposing it, and no it would not be a kludge mold).
This is a low tolerance dirt simple set of parts but nobody I can find, wants to even entertain doing these parts without making it into a major 3 ring circus.
All we want to do is prove out the process and test the market...we're talking about maybe a grand total of 20,000 parts (5 different parts at 4000 units of each).
Direct metal laser sintering these is about 60 bucks apiece which brings us to 120 grand...far more than is reasonable for what we want to do.
Do any of you have a source for titanium MIM I can contact?
Preferably a smaller vendor who will not reject a shoestring approach out of hand?
Any leads will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Edit: It was supposed to read "a Titanium" metal injection molding project...my apologies.
I have a customer for whom I designed and prototyped a bunch of parts that are perfect for metal injection molding, going into production.
It's a dental project, and the ideal material is titanium, either CP2 or Ti6Al4V.
The problem is we cannot find a titanium MIM molder that will take this on without demanding the best part of a half million bucks for engineering fees and mold builds etc etc.
I can build a proper production quality MIM mold with interchangeable inserts for about 20 grand (I'd be stealing an existing mold and re-purposing it, and no it would not be a kludge mold).
This is a low tolerance dirt simple set of parts but nobody I can find, wants to even entertain doing these parts without making it into a major 3 ring circus.
All we want to do is prove out the process and test the market...we're talking about maybe a grand total of 20,000 parts (5 different parts at 4000 units of each).
Direct metal laser sintering these is about 60 bucks apiece which brings us to 120 grand...far more than is reasonable for what we want to do.
Do any of you have a source for titanium MIM I can contact?
Preferably a smaller vendor who will not reject a shoestring approach out of hand?
Any leads will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Marcus
Implant Mechanix • Design & Innovation > HOME
Vancouver Wire EDM -- Wire EDM Machining
Edit: It was supposed to read "a Titanium" metal injection molding project...my apologies.