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If you ask ten people on the floor what the melt temperature is, you'll usually get two wrong answers before you get the right one. Let's clear this up. The Two Numbers That Get Mistaken for Melt Temp The melt display readout. That number on your extruder panel isn't a barrel zone thermocouple — it's a melt bolt, threaded into the steel at the screw tip location, where the melt exits into the adapter. It tells you how hot that steel is at that one spot. That's it. It is not measuring the...

Same Screw, Different Rules The equipment looks the same. The job isn't. Move from industrial extrusion into medical tubing and the basic pieces don't change much, screw, barrel, die, puller, all stuff you already know. What changes is everything built on top of that. The materials you're allowed to use, how tight you have to hold things, how you control the process, the paperwork, even the room you're standing in. Industrial extrusion is built around getting a lot of good parts out the door...

Am I Being Paid to Automate My Own Job Out of Existence?