Thanks, Graham!
Just have received a post from NFM Iddon - they have extrusion heads up to 180 mm bore! No mandrel, as they make curved hoses.
It seems OK for us!
Regards, Serge
Thanks, again, Graham.I have just posted to Farrel and NFM.
Anyway, want to be clear. Aside big weight problems, let's concentrate on the inner layer of a hose only (+ reinforcement, of course). What would you say about hose extrusion with hose OD 159 or 200 mm? Or 300 mm? (no cover for a...
Thanks, Graham,
you are right about big size hose and mandrel things.
But if 120 mm extrusion die exsits - see
http://www.colmec.it/uk/product-04_eng.html -
why not 159?
Serge
Hi everybody!
At our plant we are going to produce a kevlar reinforced EPDM hose 159 x 150 and 200 x 190 mm with continuous vulcanization (2 steps: 1 - precuring with microwaves, 2 - complete curing in hot air oven).
Extrusion and precuring - in vertical mode.
While producing the hose may be...