Mold Repair & Reconditioning

Hogle Sales & Manufacturing, LLC will repair & recondition your molds to appear and perform like new again. It is our recommendation that you schedule your molds to be repaired & reconditioned every 2 years to keep them running at their peak performance. We offer this service at competitive rates and excellent turn around times.

A standard R&R includes the following:

Inspect Neck Rings: Check height, pinch-offs, sandblast, zero shear steels, inserts, ect
Replace Pins & Bushings: Insure bushing snugness, proper mold alignment
Clean Water Lines: Remove water line corrosion, replace worn freeze plugs, and enlarge damaged “O ”ring“ C bores, ect
Repair Pinch-offs: Insert, peen or weld beryllium or aluminum pinch-offs as necessary to insure proper trimming
Grind Parting Face & Back of Mold: (0.003 / 0.004 Normal); removes damaged material, allows molds to be rematched, pinch-offs to be resharpened
Rematch Cavities: Improves container appearance and insures proper trimming
Re-Bore: Mold top to accept neck ring / top block pilot, this is necessary to insure correct mounting of neck rings / top blocks
Re-cut Vents / Flash Pockets: Maintains proper gram weight and proper venting per print specifications
Sharpen Pinch-off Angles: Insures proper trimming
Sandblast / Clean Vents: Improves container finish, better air venting
Water Test: Ensures proper water flow, check for water leaks and damaged freeze plugs, “O” rings, cracked water lines, ect
Step Back Plates: Necessary to insure standardization of top blocks
Maintain Shut Height: Molds can be reworked (1) at a time so a set of molds can be matched to other sets

Additional Services that can be performed on your molds:

Broken Beryllium
Add Screw-In Pins & Bushings
Crack in Molds
Waterline Damage
Grind Mounting Plates
Repair Top Blocks
Replace Top Blocks
Heli-Coil Neck Ring Mounting Hole