kb0thn
Stainless
- Joined
- May 15, 2008
- Location
- Winona, MN, USA
Hi Guys,
Any recommendations for a custom silicone rubber seal manufacturer? Low volume parts. Cylindrical profile, typically 0.060" diameter, but weird shapes. 70A silicone is a typical material. Quantities are typically about 50 to 200 a year. I expect to pay for tooling. These tools used to be a couple hundred to a thousand dollars or so.
<rant>We've been using Apple Rubber in New York since about 2011. But prices have gone way up every time we ordered. And they are quite hard to actually purchase from. Multiple days and many e-mails before they will respond to a PO or RFQ. And then they spend another week or two before they come back and say the parts have gone up some non-negligible amount in price. The issue today is that I need some parts for a hot job and they won't accept my PO for a part they have been running since 2011 without getting another copy of the print. My engineer that designed that hasn't worked here for 5 years and never had the print in our documentation system. So I got spend 2 hours going to backups to find the print. Not what I need to be doing. The upshot, which I pointed out to Apple Rubber, is that I know have the prints on hand and can start sending out RFQ's to other vendors.</rant>
Thanks,
-Jim
Any recommendations for a custom silicone rubber seal manufacturer? Low volume parts. Cylindrical profile, typically 0.060" diameter, but weird shapes. 70A silicone is a typical material. Quantities are typically about 50 to 200 a year. I expect to pay for tooling. These tools used to be a couple hundred to a thousand dollars or so.
<rant>We've been using Apple Rubber in New York since about 2011. But prices have gone way up every time we ordered. And they are quite hard to actually purchase from. Multiple days and many e-mails before they will respond to a PO or RFQ. And then they spend another week or two before they come back and say the parts have gone up some non-negligible amount in price. The issue today is that I need some parts for a hot job and they won't accept my PO for a part they have been running since 2011 without getting another copy of the print. My engineer that designed that hasn't worked here for 5 years and never had the print in our documentation system. So I got spend 2 hours going to backups to find the print. Not what I need to be doing. The upshot, which I pointed out to Apple Rubber, is that I know have the prints on hand and can start sending out RFQ's to other vendors.</rant>
Thanks,
-Jim