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06-21-2021 09:05 PM |
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Originally Posted by DiscT
(Post 3730409)
So does “reinvented” mean new plastic/manufacturer or does it mean new mold entirely (+old name)? I’ve been combing the thread/video and can’t seem to find a definitive answer, unless I missed it or lost my Lucky Charms decoder ring…
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Well, absent a full clarification from Innova or Discmania, we can’t know for sure.
The DM original line was made with molds owned by Innova made to specifications also owned by Innova. We can speculate that Innova would not have sold the molds or the specs, but we can’t know for sure. But that seems the most likely.
And let’s be clear here, it’s the specifications for the mold that really matter. The actual injection molds won’t last forever. Maybe jakebake has a sense of how many discs could be produced in the intended life span of an industrial scale injection mold, but whatever it is, I doubt it’s a decade and a half worth of discs.
Or, conversely, you could say that once the actual original mold pieces that made the “original” originals, that those particular discs can never really be made again. Because the new mold will be different in some way. But that also goes for various lots of plastic that go into certain runs, etc. At the end of the day, the ongoing life of the P2 depends on a specification to make a mold that produces a disc that looks, feels and flies like a P2 is expected to.
So the most likely thing to have happened is that DM developed their own mold specifications doing their level best to produce a disc that is as close as possible to the “ideal” P2. Given how often different runs from the same molds are slightly different, that’s really not all that rigorous of a specification. |
