INJEKTO 3 | Plastic Injection Molding Machine

Desktop Injection Molding - Oh my!

Mike on the Actionbox customer support team was super easy to work with and proved to be really helpful answering all my questions and helping me navigate my purchase. While receiving a kit of parts like this is always daunting, the assembly video was easy to navigate. The hardest part of the assembly was attaching the front and back covers and we ended up having to file down the burrs on the bottom plate in order to get it to fit - which honestly isn't much of a problem and was easily sorted. I'm pleased to say that the machine worked perfectly as soon as we turned it on. It does take several minutes to get up to temp but once it does it will very happily inject whatever it is you put into it. I still have a lot of work ahead of me sorting out molds, but the machine itself does exactly what it is supposed to do and I'm super happy with it.

Very content

I've just finished building my whole set up and haven't really worked with it enough to give a full review yet, but so far I am very impressed by the quality of all the parts and the overall design and can't wait to really dive into creating more of my art with Injekto.

Very well made

This is a great machine. I took my time putting it together after work over a couple of days; my time constraints, not the machine's fault. It's really heavy and well-made. The parts go together pretty smoothly. You need to cut some wires, but it's not a big deal. Find the unlisted YouTube assembly video and watch it a few times before starting. I'm really happy with my purchase and am currently having a great time learning injection molding. I'm using FDM-printed molds made of PET-CF. That stuff is really tough and holds up well. The downside is the print time, 14 hours to produce two mold halves, but if you don't have a CNC machine, then it's a good deal. You won't regret buying this machine. My only suggestion is not cheap out like I did on buying the Mold Lifters (for INJEKTO 3), it's worth it. I'm using a $30 car jack rated for a couple of tons, but it is a pain in the butt to position, and you really have to crank it to get the seal. Yes, it's $500, but you're already $2,500 deep, so $500 more won't make a difference :)