A real Customer case shows how cavity pressure, slide angle, surface area and friction affect hydraulic-cylinder sizing for injection mold...
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Why Doesn’t the Slide Move? A Guide to Hydraulic Cylinder Sizing
Why can a correctly sized hydraulic cylinder fail to move an injection mold slide? This real Vega Technical Department case...
When One Missing Tangent Changes the Entire Cylinder Calculation
A customer correctly calculated most forces in an injection mold slide system, but Vega Technical Department discovered that one missing...
When Calculations Are Correct but Physics Changes the Answer
A customer correctly performed an injection mold slide force calculation, but Vega Technical Department demonstrated that mold kinematics and geometry...