In Reply to: fabulous posted by Ralph on January 31, 2017 at 08:40:25:
OK, plastic is a bit different in processing than rubber, but this machine looks pretty sensible to me. It preheats and meters out the vinyl slug with great accuracy, delivers it to the stamper, pulls, trims, and stacks the record. The article's claim of 24,000 per day when operating 6 machines will require it to run at least 2X faster than that demo clip, by my watch and calculator. I would simply add a guard to prevent any possibility of the vinyl trimming striking one of the records in the stack - - it looks somewhat haphazard just now.
All in all, it looks like a well thought out automated machine. If this seems "Rube Goldberg-ish" to you, you should get out and see manufacturing some time. It's how the products you handle are made, when done well.
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- Looks sensible to this rubber processing guy... - jbrrp1 09:19:24 01/31/17 (0)