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    Design of a Hydraulic Buffer

    Greetings All; Looking for some insight into design guidelines for making a hydraulic buffer. Volume of oil to be displaced, orfice size and qnty, spring force, etc. all need to be calculated in order to design buffer rate, stroke length and return for the required application. Rather than...
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    Thick Section Rubber Molding

    Greetings Rubber head Guru's We are accomplished molders but have never ventured into the thick section molding. I currently have a contract to mold a 6"diameter by 8.5" cylinder (top and bottom edges have a 2" radius fillet). I'm searching for info on cure times, more or less shrinkage due to...
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    Cold Drawn Vs Extruded, Aluminum 6061-T651

    Thanks TVP- The extruded shape is about as bad as one could imagine... It is a "C" shaped cross section with a working length of 6" and 12" approximately. The extrusion is then machined to add multiple holes and grooves long the length. Our biggest concern isn't tolerance of the extrusion but...
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    Cold Drawn Vs Extruded, Aluminum 6061-T651

    Greetings- We're currently subcontracting to have a shaped extrusion machined for a military assembly we are under contract to produce. Over the length (8" and 12")the flatness is pretty critical. I'm curios the advantages of a cold drawn vs an extrusion of the grade aluminum listed above...
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    VERY SOFT ELASTOMER/RUBBER

    We run a very soft TPE (0-3 shore A) and could help you. This is not a castable product but could run prototypes and production for you if interested. You may contact me at mikesolutions@aol.com Respectfully mike
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    Continuous length Molding

    Picture a timing belt cut and laid open. You can't extrude this because of the teeth, however, we need to do this in contiuous lengths. therefore, contiuous molding...
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    Continuous length Molding

    It cannot be extruded due to the profile
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    Molded Tolerances

    Greetings; (Part 1) I'm looking for an RMA equivalent for plastic molded components indicating what tolerances are reasonable for given dimensions and geometries. I know the Society of Plastics Industry, Inc publishes something by material. Does anything else exist? (Part 2) Specifically, I'm...
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    One Way Valves

    We are a supplier of dusckbill valves located in Lexington, KY. See us at www.molders.com and you may contact me directly if you have further interest or questions. Mike
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    Fluorocarbon Molding

    We have an opportunity to mold a long hollow tube that has an inside diameter so small that typical injection pressures would bend a core pin. I've thought about lost core or some type of two piece molding effort where we would mold 1/2 of the tube and them mold thenmold the secong half to it...
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    Continuous length Molding

    I have an opportunity to produce continuous length molded strips of a TPE. A concept is in hand that appears it will work, however, before investing in technology, I'd like some feedback on existing methods you are using. Anyone care to comment and keep us from "reinventing the...
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    Iges File Translation

    Thanks Chris; We have ACAD14 and can view dwg and dxf files extensions with no problem. I cannot open and view iges files through acad and am looking for a way to do this. Many times these are sent to us from customers. Thanks mike
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    Facility Conditioning

    We have a 25,000 sqft facility and do custom molding. Currently their is no conditioning on the shop floor. As you can imagine, the middle of august is tough. I'm researchingoptions and companies to help me through the analysis of what would be suitable for conditioning this area and...
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    Iges File Translation

    For now we are running ACAD14 and need an IGES file translator/ viewer. Anyone know of any downloadable viewers etc. that might be used? If not please advise inexpensive options or viewing. Thansk and God Bless Mike
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    overmolded plastic piston

    Greetings; We have a customer who is asking us to overmold a thermoset material (nitrile) onto a PEP (or equivalent) plunger that works in compressor applications. The plunger measures about 1" in diameter. Our thermoset molding process would require 6-8 minutes at a mold temp of 380F. Can...
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