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Ottmar Brandau has worked in the PET
industry since 1988 in various capacities. He —
is president of Apex Container Tech Inc,a
Canadian company involved in all aspects of
blown container manufacturing. He has
comprehensive knowledge of the stretch
biow molding process, materials, and =
machinery and has trained hundreds of operators and engi-
neers all over the world. His web site www.blowmolding.org
offers support for the blow molding community.
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Contents
Introduction 1
Band in Bottle Body 5
Base Fold a
Base rupture 11
Bent Neck 13
Blown out Neck Finish 17
Burst Test Failure 19
Cracked Gates 23
oon ODM PWN
Damaged or Deformed Neck Finish
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10. Dropimpact Test Failure Ss 29
11. Fill Level Test Failure 31
12. Flat on Parting Line 33
13. Haziness or Opalescence ______s 337
14. Invisible Logo or Recycling Mark 41
15. Neck Fold 43
16. Off-Center Gate 45
17. Panel Sink 49
18. Pearlescence or Stress Whitening 53
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19. Rocker Bottom or Insufficient Base
Gearance 57
20. Spine in Oblong Bottle 61
Stress Cracking Test Failure 65
22. Thick Spot in Base (Lens) ___s 69
23. Thin Base 73
24. Thin Corners in Oblong Bottle _ 77
25. Thin Shoulder 81
26. Top Load or Vacuum Test Failure 83
27. Touch Marks (TS only) 85
28. Under-blown Bottle 87
23. Uneven Axial Distribution 91)
30. Uneven Heel or Base 93
31. Uneven Wall Thickness 95
32. Balancing Ventilation and Preform
Temperature 99
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33. Changing Preform Temperatures101
34. Finding the Correlation between
®eeform Temperature and Bottle Wall
Thicimess 103
35. Making Bottles with Optimal
Sre=tation 105
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the piston. Make sure pressure compensation
valve works properly.
C: Check blow mold leader pins and bushings
D: Vents should be not more than 0.25 mm
(0.010”) deep; typically they are 0.1 mm
(0.004”)
E: Increase blow time and/or check cooling
water flow
Further explanation:
When molds are new, the vents have been
Properly cut, and the machine clamping
mechanism (whether hydraulic or mechanical,
with or without pressure compensation) works
well, mold split lines should not be noticeable
and barely visible. If vents are too deep
(greater than 0.25 mm or 0.010”) and stretch
ratios are small material may flow into the
vents. On the other side, as time goes on
and molds wear vents can get crushed. This
leads to venting problems that may create hot
bottle parts as the air inside the mold may
prevent or delay the cooling of the material in
the mold.
When leader pins and bushings wear molds
are no longer aligned. This can felt when
running a finger over the parting line. If on
one side the parting line is proud in one way
and the other way on the other side the mold
halves are offset.
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