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Originally Posted by ContinentalOp
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that one of the reasons why MIM was popularized was because it required less final machining, i.e., more-or-less ready-to-install out of the mold, with little, if any, polishing or fitting required.
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Or, as S-W put it, with MIM the precision machining has to be done one time, when the mold is made, vs. every part has to be machined.
The engineer part of me loves the way the MIM parts are designed, metal where it needs to be and not where it isn't.