This book includes many reference tables and graphics supplying valuable information for injection mold design and engineering. The book includes mold specification sheets and mold design/engineering for gates, cooling, sprues & runners, runner sizing, ejection, pullbacks & KOs, SPI KO patterns, clamp slots, venting, hydraulic cylinders, slides, alignment, O-rings, SHCSs, support plate & pillars, hot runner considerations, etc. Also included: mold design checklist, quoting & design direction, tips to best determine shrinkage values for X, Y & Z axis, mold steels and hardness, heat treatment and tempering data, thermal conductivity values, thermal expansion, plating, best surface treatments, surface finish tables, edm roughness table, updated list of common suppliers, and more. This new 2nd EDITION also includes selected additional reference pages from other APEBOOKS which are related to mold engineering