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How to polish a mold

Mold Polishing For manufacturing a component of high surface finish and accuracy from an injection mold, it is essential to polish core and cavity of the mold so that the component can be easily ejected out after cooling without any scratch marks or deformation in the final component so that the finished product is of superior quality and pays well. Other advantages of mold polishing are reduced risk of local corrosion, fracture or cracking due to temporary overloading or pure fatigue. For molding transparent objects such as fiber lens or window for covers of electric meters, water bottles, injections used by doctors, mobile screens, etc. the core and cavity must be highly finished and so well polished that it reflects like a mirror. Though polishing is necessary, but it must not be over polished because it may  deteriorate  the shape of the cavity. In some cases where mirror finish is not required then we can simply use high precision machines to produce well finished...