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  1. sluggo

    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

    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Automation project help

    Greetings; We're a custom molder attempting to automate a secondary operation that applies hot melt glue to the inside of a plastic tube we mold. We currently rotate the tube with a fixed glue head but think it might be beeter to fix the tube and rotate the glue head. I'm looking for automation...

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