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PEEK Spring

PEEK Spring

PEEK Spring

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Is PEEK a good material for making a spring with?  I need the properties of PEEK, but would like it in a coiled spring.

RE: PEEK Spring

A good source of information on the design of springs (including plastic springs) is: M.F. Ashby, "Materials in Mechanical Design," Butterworth-Heinemann (Oxford, 1996).

RE: PEEK Spring

Try a continious carbon fiber reinforced PEEK material.  The carbon will provide stiffness and the PEEK provides the temperature/solvent resistance.  See americanmatrixcorp.com for a supplier/molder of this type material.

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