DIY Metal Injection Molding (HACKSMITH Tries MASTE)
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
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Our desktop metal injection molding machine was a hit with viewers, and when @hacksmith reached out, we couldn’t resist delivering it in person! We flew to their headquarters, H.E.R.C., to showcase the INJEKTO M and our innovative material, MASTE.
Together, we created custom metal molds using MASTE and used the INJEKTO 2.0 to inject plastic, crafting a replica of the HACKSMITH’s iconic lightsaber challenge coin. Now, they can easily recreate it anytime!
But this is just the beginning-we’re already planning our next epic collaboration on a DIY Metal 3D Printer. Stay tuned, because we’ve teased it right here on our channel.
Why is MASTE a Game-Changer?
MASTE is a revolutionary material. Once shaped-either by injecting it into a mold or sculpting it by hand-you simply cover it with our FUSION MIX powder and fire it in the included furnace. After a two-hour cycle, the part cools down to reveal a pure metal piece.
This combination of the Metal Injection Molder and MASTE is set to transform how we make DIY parts at home for our projects.
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If this can be used with a 3d printer may things can be printed and turned into metal
What about steel parts
@@QuantumTech4you didn’t watch until the end then🤔
Secret business advantage making prototyping tools: Living near to the Hacksmith.
I flew three hours to get to him 😂 He is not exactly next door.
@@ActionBOXSecret business advantage of both living near an airport! 😂
Your product looks cool. You could also use a silver paste, but I can see why you went with copper. Very nice.
@@NigelTolley Thank you very much, silver is actually in the works. stay tuned for more. Cheers
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Gold would be pretty easy as well.
Yes, 3D metal printing from home would be AWESOME! Make it so #1...!
Only $2000 a pop.
BASF already has a similar product that’s pretty crazy imo, which gives you stainless steel parts, but it costs like $120/kg. Plus the metal means 1kg is way less length/total volume than regular thermoplastic filaments.
The nice part though is that price comes with post processing (sintering?) for the full spool (if you send a full spool worth of parts, it’s one job ticket up to 1kg), so it isn’t quite as expensive as it sounds.
Matterhackers sells that filament on their site, and ironically shared a building with Liquid Metal, who does a similar thing as MASTE with injection molding. There’s no relation or business stuff between LM and MH/BASF though as far as I’m aware.
But I totally agree, it’d be great to have MASTE in a printer and have the ability to print at home or small scale shop environments! It’s long overdue and i think it’ll blow up if the process can be refined enough!
Honestly all I get from this advertisement of a video is that they haven't actually created a metal part, it's sintered and theyve undoubtedly made all their little walled garden products you have to buy undoubtedly incredibly expensive and then you have to buy their heated extruder for what is undoubtedly another large amount.
At this point, especially for parts this small, it makes more sense to do small lost wax casting, which is not all that difficult to setup especially when you consider 6ou can use a microwave to do melts.
I do wonder how much he got paid to do this advertisement though
EVERYONE should be talking about this right now, such an incredible material, I hope it gets all the attention it deserves!
cool it's copper but aluminium or magazinem please, im looking to modifying or re-poping a rare ~ 1970 ~ set housings/covers of alcoa's/dodge-parts
Never expected a collab between 2 of my favorite youtubers! That's so cool! Totally should work together!
First! 😅
Second! 😅
Since yall are both here 😅
Can you inject Maste into the sintered part, then make metal coins instead of plastic? Doesn't seem like there would be any fusion?
@@DJ-kx4en We've actually successfully made metal coins by 3D printing similar molds.
If you need HSI to make the metal 3D printer happen, absolutely collaborate. Otherwise, I think you guys can do it on your own. You do some awesome work. Can’t wait to see that!
We will be making it happen! Maybe even faster than you think. Thank you for your support and awesome comment 😃
metal desktop printer YES YES YES
Please, PLEASE make a metal desktop 3D printer.
It's in the works, and knowing how great of an engineer the HACKSMITH is I have no doubt we will succeed.
@@ActionBOX Please allow use of industrial grade sintering materials, not just copper.
@@chrishayes5755Let them run before they skydive.
@@chrishayes5755 Yessir, Working on it.
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Achieving a properly working metal 3D printer takes way more than just a great engineer and a few years. It's much further from trivial than most realize and at least one or two orders of magnitude harder and more complex compared to designing and manufacturing something simple like a proper and competitive VMC for example.
I am so hyped for desktop metal
Bullet molds for non lead rounds using this might be of an interest to reloaders.
BRO THIS IS SO SICK, THINK OF THE 3D PRINTING APPLICATIONS!
Hahah, thank you. 🙏
Integza's gonna love this.
Tell him to reach out. I’d love to let him try this.
Metal 3d printer would be awesome! Honestly, the sintering and burnout process needs to be made into a easy user experience more than the part creation side (in my mind).
I’m not sure if you noticed but our system is a 1 step process unlike other processes that have a debinding step as well.
Yes absolutely build us 3d metal printer!
I love that He sounds a little like Marvin the Martian at the opening. 😅❤
This is so cool and innovative, we need more!
OMG this is so cool. I’d pull the trigger right now but my wife will be pissed as I already have a burnout oven. Love it. Keep up the awesome work.
We sell the kit without the furnace. Just reach out to us.
Are you crazy! - get going! - we neeeed these (metal desktop 3D printer) tools :-)
Working on it. Thanks for your support.
Colab and get the desktop metal 3D printer going!
Awesome video! By the way, AmeraLabs AMD-3 3D printing resin does not react with platinum-based RTV silicones. So you don't necessarily need to use a tin-cured one.
Ooo that’s good to know. Thank you
Definitely should do desktop 3d metal printer together
yes please cdollaborate on the worlds first desktop 3d metal printer please
This was syper cool. Metal printer would be amazing.
Thanks! What was your favorite part? Stay tuned as the metal printer is coming soon 😄
This makes me so happy. Great products & great content will always yield great results.
Love to see your comment here again. Thanks for your continuous support.
I'd love to see other metal pastes, like maybe tin or zinc
Now that you've done a big time RUclips celeb collaboration, you just have to wait and let the subs roll on in!
you guys are the best cant wait to buy soon!!!! loving the maste too! cheers and all the best and amazing engineering!
Is there a chance that aluminum maste could work too? Or is aluminum just too reactive?
I ordered Injecto M yesterday and waiting to receive 🎉🎉😊😊
We got your order. Thanks for the comment, we threw in some FREE MASTE for you.
@ appreciate you guys waiting new material as you advice it will be available soon
What a great time to be alive in the great age of the Makerscene era!
(I made up that word.)
I kinda like that term. Moving from the Holocene epoch to the makerscene. All thanks to you.
This reminds me a lot of local metal printing company Rapidia here in Vancouver 🙂
umh, isnt that whole maste thing more impressive than the standard injection molding machine?
if only someone invented a device that covered your nose and mouth and prevented particles from being breathed in...oh well...just an idea for an enterprising young person to invent and bring to market.
Desktop sized 3d printerrr FTW!!! COLAB WITH ALL UTUBERS, HAVE THEM ALL BRAINSTORM ON LIVESTREAM??
Yes PULEEZ give us a (reasonably) affordable metal 3D printer for home!!!!!!!!
I would absolutely love to play with a set up like that 🤗 imagine a mounting the machine on a bench with air or hydraulic cylinders on rails for automation 😎 outstanding
Feel free to get one at actionbox.ca
Desktop metal 3d printer would be so useful for me, please make it 🙏
Now the new lightsaber from maste
I am imagining this thing on Russian Iron Man's desk, too.
I would love to see a 3D printer for metal that's affordable for the hobbyist/DIY'er. I like to restore antique power tools, and something like that would be perfect for recreating parts which were originally made from cast iron, but are now unobtanium.
How to get precise sizes for sintered final products? Does it require further machining such as casting?
It shrinks about 6% so just make your molds 6% larger. Cheers.
We definitely need a desktop metal 3d printer!! (an affordable one at least).
Yes collaboration
oooo woow I was waiting voor this video!!!!! this is so cool
I'm not saying it's aliens, but it's aliens.
Unbelievable. Amazing
Great colab.
its like pouring cream on cake.
Congratulation guys i think you really did it with this one! Can you make copper electrodes for a edm sinker? This would be a total gamechanger.
Wow, yeah, that could be something. EDM sink a finished copper part with high detail into any metal!
Please never sell your company.
But if they don’t sell it one day then rich people can’t become richer and the company wouldn’t ever get miss managed and lose its vision. Wouldn’t want that.
Hell yea do it!!!
Absolutely amazing. Wow.
Is there any shrinkage at all? Can mechanical parts be made to spec or is it really just for cosmetic parts?
Yeah the maste was by far the most interesting part of this and they didn't give ANY information on it
Probably because the more info you get, the more you realiser it's for making metallic looking parts, rather than actual metal with the properties of copper
Have you developed other metals beyond copper? If not, are you planning to?
Yes indeed, we are currently working on several and will make them available in the near future.
Yes, do it. I need a metal 3d printer.
you should tell them to brand new metals with their periodic table of elements symbols, so CuMaste, FeMaste, etc LUL
Ooo that’s a really good idea.
@ActionBox Two, ok three Questions. Could you use a cover over the top of the sintering powder to reduce how much is ashed/consumed with each sinter? Possibly a vacuum pump to remove oxygen?
The molds are created using the copper maste, but the final parts are injection molded plastic?
Could you make the mold two sided and fill from the top to directly create copper or other metal parts?
What would the benefits of this process be over lost plastic sand casting using fdm? Increased mold life?
What is the dimension lose after firing like?
Wow, i expected more flashing considering it wasn't machined, wish I had a workshop lol
An M3DP would be awesome!!! Build it, and we will come!
We are making it alright 😉. Thoughts on the teaser we shared in the video?
Amazing!
How much shrinkage do you get with maste?
Thank you! You can find all the specs on our website: actionbox.ca/products/maste
would it be good to use a vacuum with maste like epoxy to reduce air voids?
Yes it works very well, you put the part in the heated mold (right after injection) in the vacuum chamber, close it and pull vacuum for about a second and that’s enough. Just let the pressure back in immediately and let it cool for a minute. It makes the parts much better looking.
thanks for sharing, it is so cool
DO IT !!!
PLEASE make a metal desktop 3D printer.
Do that!
Gold Maste? From scrap electronics.
Actually wouldn't be difficult.
Sodium chloride brine electrolysis is an interesting process. Produces extremely fine particles.
Yes metal 3d printer!!!
How warm does the Maste get when extruding? In the video James mention it gets to 100F which isn't very hot. Could you extrude Maste directly into a 3D printed part to mold it? That would skip the step of making a silicone mold.
Yes you can. We show a quick snippet of this at the end of the video. Cheers
is aluminum or silver possible?
Def need metal printer!
Injecto metal seem like it becomes liquid enough to be ran through a 3D printing head!
Metal 3d printer would be cool
How big i the shrinkage in the sintering process?
We can see that the final coin is slightly smaller than the original positive used.
Good eye, the shrinkage is around 6%
You can get more of these details on our website actionbox.ca
6%.
Love to see this
I want one!
Get one at actionbox.ca
How much shrinkage is there with this maste?
About 6%
Yes in metal 3d printer
What's the advantage than just heating up the copper and just using regular molds?
What % shrinkage do you get when sintering the part? Copper? Aluminum? Zinc? Steel? Great process.
I read somewhere that the copper has a 6% shrinkage.
Can sintered Maste handle being used for injecting pewter and other lower temperature metals?
Yes it can. The melting point of pewter is much lower and will not be a problem for the sintered MASTE product.
For the hobbyist on a budget, is it feasible to use an Injekto M both to make injection moulds, and also to inject the plastic into them? Or is Injekto M unsuitable for plastic?
If mixed use of a single machine for both plastic and maste is a bad idea, is there anything stopping one from just melting and pouring maste using a pot on a stovetop, and reserving the Injekto for plastic use? In this video it looked like the Injekto M was unnecessary for making the metal mould as it was just poured rather than injected.
Great collab 🤙
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed
Is it copper or kind of steel ?
when sintering the maste does it shrink?
Yes, there is some shrinkage that you can account for in your designs. You can find all the specs on our website: actionbox.ca/products/maste
can the same machine be used for plastics?
INJEKTO M can only be used with MASTE, while INJEKTO 2.0 is compatible with a variety of different plastics.
taofledermaus and the ballistic machinist could do wicked things with Maste shotgun slugs
I am working on making an open source plastic extrusion machine, and i had the idea of extruding MASTE with it, will it ever be available in Argentina? I'm only 14 so i can't afford or justify shipping for something so small
That awesome. Is it much different than INJEKTO M? Sounds like a cool project
@@ActionBOX I think so, it's an extrusion screw type machine, so it can't extrude very fast but it can (in theory) create a lot of pressure to fill molds
dang so cool :D
Thanks 😊
Would this stuff work for serious detailed ECM?
can you elaborate on what ECM is?
Ummmm….YES! Please use your creativity to build a metal desktop printer…more than copper could be useful, too!
Working on it, and new materials are already in progress. Stay tuned for more 😃. Thanks for your support 😊
Would this work in a microwave mini kiln?
Can you share a link to one?
5:08 aMASTEing!!!
Please make that printer!!
please do the metal 3d printer!
No steel maste? And i guess the price is a bit of a issue.
Metal 3D printer pleeeeeeaaaaaase! Im guessing it'll use maste as filament?
5:52 what tool are they using in this video to get the Fahrenheit? :-)
Wait, what about metal filament? Possible since quite a while..