CPC Roman Mold - What's the Deal? (1 Viewer)

[justsomedude]

I did some searching but haven't found anything concrete... Does anyone know what happened with the Rounders / Roman mold, and why it is out of commission and its future is "undecided"?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Mr Tree]

I did some searching but haven't found anything concrete... Does anyone know what happened with the Rounders / Roman mold, and why it is out of commission and its future is "undecided"?

Thanks in advance.

My understanding is the mold just is pretty much dead. After a certain point they get so overused that the yield is too low for a mold to be serviceable anymore. The MD50 is flirting with being at that point now.

 

[BNM]

Suggest checking the CPC post by David at CPC. Multiple references in that thread, and others, to the status of various molds. Roman mold is a no-go as Senior Arbol indicated, just not serviceable anymore.

 

[bogart]

I love that mold(despite the spinners)!

 

[ohio3302016]

I have a set of 700 Roman mold chips that I bought about 9 years ago. It's a very cool mold.

 

[Mr Tree]

Suggest checking the CPC post by David at CPC. Multiple references in that thread, and others, to the status of various molds. Roman mold is a no-go as Senior Arbol indicated, just not serviceable anymore.

Lol @ Senior Arbol

 

[Jeff]

I have a 1000-chip set of them I ordered in 2007, right before the mold was retired. The first iteration had extreme thickness problems and spinners. Quite a few of the chips had to be made over. The mold was the problem for ASM/CPC which required they throw away a lot of chips during manufacturing.

 

[BNM]

Lol @ Senior Arbol

I also misspelled senor (senior!) which is even more LOL!

I have a small sample set of these from...gosh...2003 or 2004 and, while they look amazing, they feel and sound lighter to me, as other people have also noticed.