If your looking to build a true injection mold the size of the mold would need to be quite large for this size of a final product - your initial cost of steel would be high.
Production volumes for tool shops are light due to automotive models launches being pushed out. If your serious now would be a good time before they ramp up again and prices go up.
To get a shop to build this for you I would guess your looking at a minimum of 100k usd. The tolerances youd need would be low, but the steel for the cavity and core would be 50k easy not including labour, flow design/engineering and their profit on the tool.
The difference between a Krusty and a hempy is with hempys there are no moving parts, no need for a reservoir" and the media has the unique ability to become super colonized by benificials. Further, in a large enough pot you can keep a plant indefinitely.
For the 2 years I grew with KFBās, Iām not sure what moving parts your speaking of in the buckets
The sunken reservoir (30 feet away) has a pump, and I did pump air (40 feet away) to a manifold I made in the grow room), so you are correct concerning working parts in the whole system.
Perlite or lava rocks, coco coir husks/chips are the or is a passive reservoir, and all 3 are flat out fantastic for Beneficialās, IMHO. Hell I still use them today in fact.
I was just curious to your double bucket idea, and trying to wrap my old brain around it. I do think itās worth some thought time.
Well i see the double bucket first as an insulator; warm when cold and cool when hot. With this design in mind, it is easy to envision the second wall as a outer res.
I canāt really tell but I think thatās just a single walled bucket thats extended on the side to make adding nutes etc easier. Cool idea for sure though, it would be really easy to grow one monster dwc plant in that.
Also $39, so $35 for a unique hempy design doesnāt seem that unreasonable.
No I donāt think so from what I readā¦.
But, let me try to be a little more clear. The āoriginalā bucket would be exactly like a standard hempy but double walled for insulation. If the grower wanted, they could simply drill a hole (or pop out the plug) to turn the double wall into a small āresā and add a drain/fill tube if wanted. The only flaw I see with this is the water in the double wall would be cooled (or warmed) by bare ground.
I see, but then couldnāt you only fill the outer bucket to the height you wanted the inner at? Like if you filled the outer all the way and there was a hole between them in it would flood the inner bucket until the depth was equalā¦I think?
Yes that would be true if only a hole was drilled between the 2.
In a 2 piece plastic bucket, there would need to be a support between the 2 pieces. This support could be used to partition the double bucket so thT it can only be filled to the fill line.
The partition could also be used as a screw lock holding the 2 parts together.
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