Mold bases, ejector pins, leader pins, bushings, interlocks, water manifolds — one call to source them all. Tooling Components stocks standard mold components from three of the most complete lines in North America: DME, PCS Company, and Progressive Components.
Why Standard Components Win
Every hour a mold maker spends cutting a standard leader pin, boring a bushing, or fabricating a sprue bushing is an hour not spent on the cavity and core — the parts of the mold that actually define the product. Standard mold components exist to eliminate that waste, and Tooling Components brings you the breadth to cover them all from a single source.
Three Brands, One Catalog of Record
Each of the lines we stock has its own strengths, and together they cover the full range of standard mold components:
- DME — standardized mold components since 1942: mold bases, ejector pins, leader pins, bushings, side locks, slide-action components, cooling, and MUD quick-change systems.
- PCS Company — PCS stands for Pins, Cores, and Sleeves. Known for Hardened Throughout® ejector pins, leader pins, bushings, wear plates, mold bases, and F.I.T.S. frames.
- Progressive Components — engineered mold actions and monitoring: through-hard pins, UniLifter assemblies, mold cylinders, blade ejectors, radial springs, and mold monitoring.
What the Range Covers
- Mold bases — standard and custom configurations.
- Ejector components — ejector pins, core pins, sleeve ejectors, blade ejectors, return pins.
- Alignment — leader pins, bushings, tapered interlocks.
- Mold-entry items — sprue bushings, locating rings, date stamps, gating inserts.
- Mechanisms — lifters, slides, unscrewing devices, modular water manifolds.
- Cooling — fittings, manifolds, valves, and flow monitoring.
How Tooling Components Makes It Simple
Tooling Components organizes the DME, PCS, and Progressive ranges so you can spec across all three brands from one desk — and stocks the standard sizes at its Erie, PA warehouse:
- 15,000+ SKUs across all component families.
- Same-day shipping for stocked items.
- Hot-shot delivery within 100 miles of Erie when a line is down.
- Component-level purchasing — buy the pins, sleeves, bushings, and guide rails instead of a finished mold base, and cut both cost and lead time.
The Bottom Line
Standard components reduce mold cost, compress lead time, and make maintenance predictable. When the mold eventually needs a replacement pin or a worn bushing, the part number is already in the catalog and the part is already on the shelf.
Related catalog items: The full range — mold bases, ejector pins and sleeves, core pins, leader pins and bushings, side locks, locating rings, mold springs, drill bushings, punches, die sets, and water connectors — from DME, PCS Company, and Progressive Components.
Call us at 814-438-7657 or send your component list — we will quote stock and delivery while you are on the phone.