Re: Living Hinges

From: Stanley Lechtzin (stanley@home.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 1999 - 08:10:13 EEST


At what temperature and for how long do you anneal the Duraform?
-Stanley


At 03:54 PM 9/7/99 -0500, David K. Leigh wrote:
>We have had a customer who was able to cylcle their Duraform living hinge
>part well over 300 times.  We've had luck with wall thicknesses as small as
>0.010".  Of course, these don't tend to flex as many times.  Another
>customer was very skeptical and felt that the parts would not last.  Once
>the parts were built, they were surprised at the number of times it would
>flex.  If you anneal the Duraform, it appears to increase the number of
>cycles you can expect.
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>David K. Leigh                           ph (254) 933-1000
>Harvest Technologies                 fax (254) 298-0125
>Rapid Prototyping Services   www.harvest-tech.com



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