By: Rudy Silva
Submitted: 2011-01-12 02:40:03 | Word Count: 582
Delrin machining is capable of CNC machining, CNC milling, CNC turning, and fabrication services. Delrin is the brand of acetal, a thermoplastic polymer created through polymerization of formaldehyde. Its chemical composition, regular structure, and high crystallinity of acetal resins makes parts manufactured from Delrin a combination of physical properties not seen in metals and other plastics.
Its generic name, Delrin acetal is known for its high strength and stiffness, and ease of machining and enhanced dimensional stability. A few more properties include low co-efficient of friction, low moisture absorption, and good wear property. Hence, Delrin is best suited for close tolerance mechanical parts.
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Delrin machining manufactures gear, electrical components, rollers, ROV components, bearings, and bushings. It is also employed to make RC car wheels, paintball gun bolts, and some applications. It is also a better alternative to nylon. In making guitar picks, Delrin is preferred due to its durability. It is also safe because it resists x-rays.
Manufacturers of frame sliders for motorcycles and knee pucks for motorcycle riders use Delrin. And so do makers of knife handle. Many opt for Delrin because it is convenient to saw, drill, lathe, and even to sand. Even the United States Food and Drug Administration approved Delrin in using it to manufacture food-based applications.
Plastic is among the most impressive innovations in technology. As a versatile material, a plastic is capable of adopting different shapes, molds, and sizes. It also comes in different grade, property, and classification.
Delrin when used to manufacture sheets, rods, and tubes, has the same characteristics of industrial metals like zinc, stainless steel, brass, and aluminum. As a homopolymer acetal, it is the strongest non-reinforced plastics mankind has today.
It bridges the gap between ordinary plastics and metals with a combination of properties such as creep resistance, stiffness, hardness, strength, fatigue resistance, toughness, dimensional stability, low friction and wear, and abrasion resistance.
Among the unfilled Delrin products, Delrin 150 Natural is an unfilled acetal with the standard general purpose with the best impact toughness. There are also the glass-filled and lubricated grades to enhance the already impressive mechanical and thermal properties of Delrin.
Another unfilled grade of Delrin is the acetal copolymer which offers remarkable performance as well. It can endure temperature of up to 180 degrees Fahrenheit.
Delrin grades include Delrin 100 black, Delrin 550 SA natural, Delrin 507 black, and Delrin 570. Delrin 100 black is equivalent to the 150 SA. It has the best toughness of any acetal standard and is UV stabilized. The Delrin 550 SA natural has the best machinability of all standard Delrins. The black equivalent of 550 SA is Delrin 507 black. Delrin 570 grade has 15% or 20% glass fiber filler. It has greater mechanical properties than unfilled acetals.
Delrin machining is used also to manufacture wear pads, seals, medical parts, washers, sheavers, semiconductor, nozzles, and balls. Manufacturers of bushings, cams, caps, guides, blocks, pads, plugs, rings, rods, and rollers use Delrin, too.
Delrin machining is helpful even in manufacturing spacers, supports, parts, and back up rings. Delrin has been an ultimate solution in plastic machining.
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