A new injection moulding service – Kitpart Ltd

[The Nth Degree]

With the seemingly legendary quest to reduce lead times and cost expenditures on LLCs projects, we have decided to actively do something about reducing both. In a few days time my designer, Nikki, and I will start a new injection moulding company.

 

Last week we bought our first injection moulding machine. We're starting small and gaining experience as we go, but the long-term plan is for in-house production of all LLCs products. To help us learn from real, active jobs we'd like you to give us some work. In return we'll share as many of the costs with you as possible, making ours some of the lowest cost injection moulded parts you can commission.

 

As we grow, so will our capability, and we hope you will too. Perhaps you've always wanted to start a small business with a great idea, only to find production costs are way too high. Well, think again. As long as it fits on our machine and it's possible to mould it, we'll produce it.

 

Attached below are some guidelines on tooling, the procedures we work to and the costs. No hidden extras, no surprises. You will always own the tooling and the copyright to do with as you wish, but we're fairly confident you won't find a better deal. The company officially starts on Wednesday 10th January and we'll have a website and contact emails shortly after. I'll update the thread when this happens.

 

So, if you can think it, we'll make it.

 

Steve & Nikki

Tooling Guide.pdf

[polybear]

I wish you well with your new enterprise.

A thought: perhaps Coopercraft may be interested in engaging your services

(One tip:  I'd ask for cash in advance if I were you....)

Cheers,

Brian

[mike hughes]

I wish you well with this venture. Me as a small business (hopefully growing) can think of several things that it would be useful for.

 

Regards

Michael

[Bucoops]

Good luck

[Tricky-CRS]

Good luck very interesting idea

[Andy Hayter]

Good luck with this project, but I think you will need to graduate from PP to HIPS fairly quickly for the model market.

[The Nth Degree]

Yes, and ABS too. Our machine can work with HIPS but we had to make a start testing so I bought PP as it's much more widely used in all areas than HIPS. We're still a good couple weeks away from accepting any orders for work, but by then we'll have a reasonably decent materials selection to work with.

[laurenceb]

Good luck

[davec.hh]

Best of luck from me too

 

DaveC

[The Nth Degree]

Kitpart Ltd is now formally active and has its own email address.

 

Please contact sales@kitpart.co.uk with any enquiries. We welcome anything; parts and complete kits of any scale – as long as they fit on our machine.

 

Thanks, Steve

[Joseph_Pestell]

Great news. I will definitely be in touch soon.