Thin molds do need a faster fill, but you gotta preheat them more. A cold thin mold will skin over no matter how fast you pour. We run a lot of sheet-like parts and that's the only way it works.

That book The E-Myth makes this point painfully clear.

Loads like dial-up" is sending me. I let it run and the loading bar had individual pixels that filled in one at a time. I haven't seen that since 1998.

Ugh, honestly clients watching the clock seems totally fair to me... these treatments take forever. If I'm stuck in a chair for hours, I'm gonna notice the time passing too. Maybe the problem isn't bored clients, it's that the whole process needs better communication about how long each part actually takes. People have lives and schedules, you can't just expect them to zone out for half a day.

Watched my circular saw try to walk off the workbench once when it bound in a knot. That thing jumped like it had a personal grudge against my project plans. Sometimes I swear they get bored and decide to invent new problems just to keep things interesting. You can double check every setting and still get that moment of pure panic when the tool makes its own choices.