Shenzhen Fast - Injection Molding (Patreon)

Injection molding! Such an important process, but one that I think is not well understood by the general public. 

Almost every plastic thing that is produced in high volumes has to be injection molded. It's the only way to drive the costs down low enough to make many consumer products realistic! And designing parts for injection molding is its own specialty skill. I've been lucky enough to go through the process a few times myself, and it really opens your eyes to how complex every single plastic thing really is. Even the "cheap" things have dozens of people working together to make it possible. 

Someday I'd love to do a little explainer on how to tell how something was made, because I've picked up so many interesting tricks. I geek out about this kind of stuff...