title: Union Cases: A Collector's Guide to the Art of America's First Plastics
author:  Clifford Krainik 
description: The definitive reference of the plastic photographic case illustrating in black and white every known case design--773 examples. In addition, the text is augmented by 22 black and white figures.
zlib_text: © Plastics Design Library
  Ch. 10: Case Studies
  10  Case Studies
  In more than thirty-five years of experience in this
  business, I have seen all sorts of parts, customers, and
  problems. Anyone in this business who has not been
  visited by an inventor with a “wonderful” idea that he
  wishes to implement in plastics must be in a position
  where he does not deal with the public.
  Here comes a bright-eyed inventor. Perhaps the (ab-
  breviated) conversation goes like this.
  INVENTOR: “I wanna make this here whatsit outa
  plastic.”
  MOLDER: “What kind of plastic?”
  INVENTOR: “Uhhh……Hard plastic?”
  MOLDER: “Do you know that this invention will
  require molds that cost thousands of dollars?”
  INVENTOR (IRATE): “You tryin’ to rip me off? I know
  plastics are cheap!” and he stalks out in an
  angry huff.
  Then there is the guy responsible for the case de-
  scribed in Sec. 10.5, who cannot be taught or warned
  about our less scrupulous brethren.
  This chapter deals with a variety of molding expe-
  riences, problems, a