16mm acetal rod
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Topic: 16mm acetal rod
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Subject: 16mm acetal rod
Date Posted: 28 May 08 at 9:53pm
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Anyone know of a good place to buy a small amount of Acetal rod?
I'm only looking for about 100mm of 16mm external dia so not looking for a bulk supplier! Many thanks in advance
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Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:13am
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100mm as in 10cm? Don't think you can buy it in that small quantities. However, RS Components sell it in metre lengths. You have to buy three lengths but it's only £10 the lot. Trade counters throughout GB. http://uk.rs-online.com/web/search/searchBrowseAction.html?method=retrieveTfg&Ne=4294958462&Ntt=acetal&Nr=AND%28avl%3auk%2csearchDiscon_uk%3aN%29&Ntk=I18NAll&Ntx=mode%2bmatchallpartial&N=4294954667+4294890034&Nty=1&binCount=126&selectAttribute=16mm#breadCrumb - Clicky What do you need it for? ------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |
Posted By: English Dave
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:21am
Or try http://www.shopforplastic.co.uk/ - Davis Industrial and look at their "smaller quantities" range. Tempted to shout a big FGI for all the effort it took to find it but that would breach all forum etiquette rules. ------------- English Dave http://www.ballyholme.com - Ballyholme Yacht Club (You'd think I'd be better at it by now) Hurricane 5.9 SX RS700 |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:22am
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Dave, I'm making a fitting to go inside my Spi pole prodder. Just need to get some rod I can turn down (need to find a way to do that as well!) and then insert into the top of the prodder. internal Dia of the prodder is 14mm. XD is about 16.
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Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:24am
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:notworthy: smiley ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 10:05am
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http://www.mallardmetals.co.uk/ - http://www.mallardmetals.co.uk/ No minimum order. Pdf catalogue download. Looks like the closest they do is 15mm. ------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 12:13pm
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Thanks for the link, but it really needs to be 16mm ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 12:35pm
What, an end fitting? Might be easier just to buy some graphite filler and make a little mould to fabricate it out of epoxy/silica/graphite mix. Fill the mould, drill out the hole in the middle and file/dremel and polish. Silica/graphite epoxy is pretty hard wearing. |
Posted By: Matt Jackson
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 12:37pm
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Not sure how good a result you'd get from turning acetal - it's quite soft ------------- Laser 203001, Harrier (H+) 36 |
Posted By: Jack Sparrow
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 3:27pm
Sorry,  if you are going to turn it then they do a 20mm.------------- http://www.uk3-7class.org/index.html" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Class Website https://www.facebook.com/groups/1092602470772759/" rel="nofollow - Farr 3.7 Building - Facebook Group |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:50pm
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EDP in Cambridge! or pm me and i might have some! "When do you need it? ------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: les5269
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 9:52pm
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------------- 49er 531 & 5000 5025 and a mirror(now gone to mirror heaven)! http://www.grafham.org/" rel="nofollow - Grafham water Sailing Club The greatest inland sailing in the country |
Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 29 May 08 at 10:45pm
PM on the way :-) ------------- Wanna learn to Ski - PM me.. |
Posted By: Contender 541
Date Posted: 30 May 08 at 7:47am
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And whatever you do
Don't set fire to it. Then blow the flame out and sniff the smoke You will only do it once ------------- When you find a big kettle of crazy it's probably best not to stir it - Pointy Haired Boss Crew on 505 8780 |