Have the CAD files been updated to reflect the actual tool being shipped?
Does your CAD file actually reflect the part being made? What did you change in the last two weeks during sampling that means we don’t know the latest dimension? “Most of the shops I’m using now are aware of that, along with the electrodes,” says Wilson. “You bought the electrodes so you need those packed in with the tool, along with anything special used to make the tool. You need to ask for it to be shipped with the mold.” 7. Was the tooling sampled in an equivalent press to the one in which it will run in the United States? “You really want to know in what machine you’re going to run the mold,” says Wilson. “A lot of these sample houses are just that-sample houses. They may be throwing your mold in a 400-ton press because that’s the one that’s open, when you’re going to run it in a 220-ton press. It doesn’t have to be the same exact brand, but it needs to be same tonnage, pressures, and shot size.” 8. Did the tool run for 24 hours or just long enough to get samples? Not every mold n
