Spruslayer Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 (edited) With the newly tooled kits and parts coming out recently, how many copies of the mold of a subject are made to fill the demand for the product,or how many kits of one model can be produced per day if there was only one mold? Being im still waiting on my Grumpy Jenkins kit that i preordered is what got me wondering. Edited October 11, 2020 by Spruslayer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 In all but a rare few exceptions, there is only one mold/tool for each kit. With more modern kits, they are often designed from the start to produce two or more versions, by switching in different portions of the tool. Stock and street machine or racing versions, for example. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 How long does it take from joining the mold halves together , injecting the plastic, separating, cooling, to make one kit ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 I've heard the cycle takes about one minute, but I'd bet "offshore" manufacturing might move a bit quicker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Myers Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 That, with packaging, it's really amazing how they can knock out so many kits, 50,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spruslayer Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 Thanks for the response guys.At 1 per minute if all gose well,five 8 hour shifts will produce about 2400 kits. With really popular kits with world wide distribution i can see where that may not be enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Brian Posted October 12, 2020 Share Posted October 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Spruslayer said: Thanks for the response guys.At 1 per minute if all gose well,five 8 hour shifts will produce about 2400 kits. With really popular kits with world wide distribution i can see where that may not be enough If I remember correctly those in the know have posted that most kit runs are around 5,000 units these days, maybe 10k if they think they've got a hot seller coming out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spruslayer Posted October 12, 2020 Author Share Posted October 12, 2020 13 minutes ago, Fat Brian said: If I remember correctly those in the know have posted that most kit runs are around 5,000 units these days, maybe 10k if they think they've got a hot seller coming out. In my case of waiting for the Grumpy Vega,to me producing that number of kits should fill the demand as i dont think as popular as the Grumpy vega is, its not world wide known like say Godzilla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteowl7710 Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 (edited) It's a lot easier to produce more kits when something sells out than it is to move a bunch of dead stock and sell it for below wholesale to Ollie's. Manufacturing and production is the quick bit, it still then has to be containerized, take a long Pacific vacation by boat, and then ride a train up to Chicago and a truck to South Bend. Then get offloaded, inventoried, broken down, repacked and the shipped to the vendor your pre-order is purchased from... Edited October 13, 2020 by niteowl7710 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 14 hours ago, Mark said: I've heard the cycle takes about one minute, but I'd bet "offshore" manufacturing might move a bit quicker. They can run them as fast as they want, but you get get warped bodies and hoods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 2 hours ago, 1930fordpickup said: They can run them as fast as they want, but you get get warped bodies and hoods. And, on occasion, that's what happens... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSNJim Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 How long do they run the molds a day? For the aforementioned five shifts, would they run the machines continuously for 40 hours or periodically over 5 8 hour days? I guess I'm asking about heating and cooling times, and cool plastic between the plastic supply and the molds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Brian Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 1 hour ago, SSNJim said: How long do they run the molds a day? For the aforementioned five shifts, would they run the machines continuously for 40 hours or periodically over 5 8 hour days? I guess I'm asking about heating and cooling times, and cool plastic between the plastic supply and the molds. This is an interesting question, my dad worked in printing and worked twelve hour days because setting up the press with ink and plates and blankets and getting all four roller sets in register could take and hour or two and cleanup was at least an hour. Once you get the thing running right it's best to just let it go as long as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 I'd bet those factories work in shifts, 24/7/365. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Geiger Posted October 13, 2020 Share Posted October 13, 2020 12 minutes ago, Mark said: I'd bet those factories work in shifts, 24/7/365. In China that’s only two workers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSNJim Posted October 14, 2020 Share Posted October 14, 2020 21 hours ago, Fat Brian said: Once you get the thing running right it's best to just let it go as long as possible. That's what I was thinking. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1930fordpickup Posted October 16, 2020 Share Posted October 16, 2020 Plastic plants run 24 7 365 days. Rarely do they shut down because it can take a shift to get them running again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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