DavidScott
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For those who want the cheapest version of Turcite, Tribo-Tape. It is even self-adhesive for ease of installation. Yes I am joking but it does look pretty good.
I worked on re-building the bigger type of machine tools. We wouldn't use any plastic slide way material that was thinner than 1/8". Preferably a bit thicker if possible. Using material 0.020" thick would be pretty pointless on the machines I refer to. That tape would probably be ok for bench type machines but I'd be loathe to use it on production type machinery.
Other opinions are available.
Regards Tyrone.
I've used JB weld for all sorts of non-tradidional repairs, is this thread encouraging me to promote those repairs? Call it what you want, but turcite and rulon are just nother names for JB weld type products......
Clearly you are clueless.........
Clearly you are clueless.........
I've used JB weld for all sorts of non-tradidional repairs, is this thread encouraging me to promote those repairs? Call it what you want, but turcite and rulon are just nother names for JB weld type products......
Well, not really that far off the mark, they are all basically plastics. Rulon is chemically much more similar to JB Weld than it is to iron or bronze.
I personally don't like plastic ways on a machine tool. Good only for very light applications, or, situations where a sliding member is specifically designed to use it and has enough surface area to spread around forces so psi is kept very low.
I don't get how anything that compresses so easily and is so thermally unstable is what I should want on my machine's way surfaces. Sure it's much easier to work with than building surfaces up with metal, and maybe it's almost as good, but I'll not be doing it.
Well, not really that far off the mark, they are all basically plastics. Rulon is chemically much more similar to JB Weld than it is to iron or bronze.
I personally don't like plastic ways on a machine tool. Good only for very light applications, or, situations where a sliding member is specifically designed to use it and has enough surface area to spread around forces so psi is kept very low.
I don't get how anything that compresses so easily and is so thermally unstable is what I should want on my machine's way surfaces. Sure it's much easier to work with than building surfaces up with metal, and maybe it's almost as good, but I'll not be doing it.
Just to be clear this thread is a joke, but it does answer threads where the op was looking for a cheap alternative, such as nylon or polyethylene. This stuff comes in .5mm and 1 mm thicknesses either with or without self-adhesive backing. It costs somewhere around 20 cents a square inch, has a very high-quality self-adhesive, is available in cut lenghts of various widths, and is real easy to order online at Igus. For those who want a cheap plastic wear strip I think this is a viable option. I have some samples of .5mm self-adhesive and the level of quality is impressive. The 3" wide strip cut from a 20"? wide roll measured with my calipers holding the jaws together over the strip, to eliminate flex, the thickness is .0335 over it's entire area. Just a joke but it may work pretty well.
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