I'm striking out in finding articles on tool wear in molding Viton type materials. I imagine the dies will wear more quickly with fluoropolymers than with other polymers. Does anyone have any reference articles they can point me to?
Bill
fluoropolymer molding, tool wear
Feb 15, 2006
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Sorry, I meant injection molding not thermoforming.
I'm wary that the fluorine is present in a form that would attack the tool steel used in the die more readily than when molding other polymers. That might mean that the tool would wear more quickly and need rework/replacement more often than one would suspect.
Bill, You correct in assuming that the flourine will certainly wear out your injection molding tooling. You might want to look into Hastalloy or any of the other exotic metals will be better for tooling.
You might want to try an industry expert in Plastic Injection Molding like RTC located in St Paul, MN
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Best of luck, Scott
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