Gastrow Injection Molds: 108 Proven Designs

Hans Gastrow has been publishing examples of mold construction for injection molding since the mid-fifties. These were collected and published in 1966 in the first German edition of this book, which was widely acclaimed because there had been, until then, no other collection of its kind.

The injection molding industry stood at the beginning of its great upturn and ideas for constructing good and economically feasible molds were received with great interest. Shortly after the publication of the first edition, Gastrow died. The 2nd edition, published in 1975, kept the objectives set by the first. It does not aim to be a textbook but illustrates selected problems of injection mold construction with interesting and commercially tested solutions. The present English translation of the 3rd German edition remains true to this principle. Along with a large number of new examples, principles of construction are also treated.