Mechanical properties are important and most of the applications involve some loading, deflection and stress. In this blog you will learn basics of stress strain to determine mechanical properties. More to come specific to plastics
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Standard Systems
Do you want to save money buying hotrunners? Here is the blog about standard hotrunner systems for your project!
Valve Gate – Air kit
Pneumatic valve gates need an air kit to perform efficiently. Here in this blog you will learn about the function of an air kit.
Drawing requirements from mold designer
To design a hotrunner, mold designer should provide some important dimensions to hotrunner supplier. Here are the eight details needed in the drawing to design a hotrunner. You can download reference sheet below.
Valve Gate Actuation – servo
This blog is a continuation of the pneumatic and hydraulic actuation. Here is the explanation on the latest technology!
Valve Gate Actuation
This blog explains the methods of actuating valve gate pin in the hotrunner system, mainly Pneumatic and Hydraulic. More to come!
hOT TIP CONFIGURATIONS – SPECIAL TIPS
There are hot tip special tips for special gating requirements. You will learn what are the options in this blog.
5 steps to hot runner nozzle selection
How do you pick a hotrunner nozzle for your application? Here are the 5 steps!
Hot tip thermodynamics
Why it is hard to maintain good gate vestige in a hot tip systems. This blog explains the thermodynamics in the gate area which will give an idea of the variables for good gate vestige.
Valve gate variables
In this blog, you can learn what affects the valve gate quality? Variables that influence the gate vestige.
why valve gate?
Here in this blog you will learn the advantages and disadvantages of a valve gate system. VG system are expensive compared to hot tip but does it payback?
Hot Tip Configurations – basic
What are the basic hot tip configurations you can use? How do you select the tip? This blog explains the various tips for hot tip system
Valve gate – Gating options
In this topic you will learn valve gate gating options and when to use them.
8 things to know before buying A hot runner
What are the info you should have before buying a hot runner. Here are the steps…start counting!
4 steps for material selection – intro
Here are 4 steps to select plastic material for an application. This is just an intro and more detail blog will be coming soon.