The Pocket Inyector is a unique desktop injection moulding system that allows you to create your very own plastic parts in multiple quantities using injection moulding moulds created using 3D printed resin. Earlybird pledges are now available from €500 for the first 1000 units with delivery throughout Europe are expected to take place during November 2020.
Translated using Google Translate :
“We are Rafa and Toni who move this initiative after having repeatedly encountered the high cost of prototype parts. We are not talking about 3D printing or functional prototypes, we are talking about making industrial parts with final materials at low cost and without depending on third parties. We have manufactured two models of injectors previous to the one we want to make now, with this latest design we have improved certain aspects and simplified others until we have achieved an easy to use Plug and Play injector, reduced in size and at an affordable price for everyone.
With this injector we managed to make the parts we needed for much less money than they simply asked us to make the mold (more than € 6,000), and now for just under € 500 we can have another mold with different parts and manufacture a quantity ourselves almost unlimited without additional costs and saving a lot of time comparing for example with a 3d printer. We had the case with a particular piece of concrete that took about 35 minutes in an extrusion 3d printer, being that with the Pocket we managed to obtain pieces every 18 seconds and with very concrete material and impossible to find in filament. This is a great advantage to make the same piece in slightly larger quantities, as in our case and take the example of the aforementioned piece, of which we were able to make about 1,500 units in a single day.”
“Somos Rafa y Toni quienes movemos esta iniciativa después de habernos topado varias veces con el alto coste de las piezas prototipo. No hablamos de impresiones 3D ni prototipos funcionales, hablamos de la realización de piezas industrializadas con materiales finales a bajo coste y sin depender de terceros. Hemos fabricado dos modelos de inyectoras anteriores al que queremos realizar ahora, con este último diseño hemos mejorado ciertos aspectos y simplificado otros hasta haber conseguido una inyectora Plug and Play fácil de usar, de tamaño reducido y a un precio asequible para todos.
Con esta inyectora conseguimos hacer las piezas que necesitábamos por mucho menos dinero que nos pedían simplemente para la realización del molde (más de 6.000€), y ahora por algo menos de 500€ podemos tener otro molde con piezas diferentes y fabricar nosotros mismos una cantidad casi ilimitada sin costes adicionales y ahorrando muchísimo tiempo comparando por ejemplo con una impresora 3d. Tuvimos el caso con cierta pieza en concreto de tardaba unos 35 minutos en una impresora 3d de extrusion, siendo que con la Pocket logramos obtener piezas cada 18 segundos y con material muy concreto e imposible de encontrar en filamento. Esta es una gran ventaja para realizar la misma pieza en cantidades un poco más grandes, como en nuestro caso y pongo el ejemplo de la pieza antes mencionada, de la que pudimos realizar unas 1.500 unidades en un solo dia.”
Source : Kickstarter