The last few months of 2011 have been rocky for people living on the East Coast. The recent acts of nature that have plagued Connecticut have tested our ability to get work done in spite of power outages. During Hurricane Irene, we lost power for 4 days and with the October nor’easter, we were 2 [...]
Here are a couple pictures of some vapor polished acrylic manifolds we did for one of our customers. This shows how vapor polishing can improve the finish of deep, small diameter holes and threads. Secondary Finishing Vapor Polishing See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from ecpm’s posterous
Here are a few quick shots of a part that does a good job of showing East Coast’s capabilities. This part was turned, milled and vapor polished. It also has several different sized threads and a sealing port with and o-ring groove. It is also a good example of how Ultem nicely vapor polishes. See [...]
Here is set of photos showing the progression of vapor polishing a plastic part. The first shot is of the part before polishing. The second is during vapor polishing. We only polished half of it to show the difference in finish that vaporing can offer. The final photo is of the part fully vapored. Many [...]
I recently read a good post about nominal screw diameters and hole clearances over at Toolmonger, a blog I personally read. Give it a look if you’re interested. They regularly feature interesting tools, projects, and ideas that engineers would enjoy reading. From Scissors to Shop Class History to Gauge Blocks, they have some great stuff!
Plastic machining is both an art and a science. Plastics can change dimensionally due to humidity, temperature and machining process and there is an “art” to keeping machined components within stated tolerances. All polymers and copolymers react differently to coolant and machining technique- the science required to properly machine plastic. Plastic can be machined or [...]
