Went to Universal Studios
Posted By matt on January 18, 2004
So, we went to Universal Studios today. Not a bad place to spend the day. Not much to say about it. I took some pictures, but nothing really worth posting.
Yesterday we visited an injection molding facility. It's pretty nifty how they mold plastic, and all the cool stuff they can do. They actually make a lot of the molds by making the inverse of the mold out of carbon, then putting it in a machine that presses the carbon close to the hardened steel and hits it with something like 25kV, causing an arc that blows off a layer of steel. It does this over and over until the mold is made. Pretty cool.
It also reinforced why I'm happy I went to college – I do not want to work at a factory putting in screws all day, nor do I want to work in a plastic place running a molding machine all day.
I guess that's it. Night all.
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