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Here's[1] a video with some discussion around the process of designing a mold for a firearm part, from someone who's trying to bring an injection molded product to the market. Here's[2] a video from the actual molding process.

This is obviously for mass production, so I guess you can cut some corners for low-volume production, but I imagine designing a fairly proper mold is still required.

I'm not into firearms but it was interesting to hear the complexities involved, was a lot of things I hadn't thought about.

[1]: https://youtu.be/QmhYMRNzFu8?t=256

[2]: https://www.bitchute.com/video/EMOOqo9G2pPd/ (loud!)



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