Nylon & Nylatron Proven Applications
Ertalon (Nylon) / Nylatron materials offer a high toughness, a low coefficient of friction and a good wear resistance. These properties make them ideal replacements for a wide variety of materials from metal to rubber.
Shaking Rods for Wine-Grape Harvester using Nylon 66 SA Rods (Ertalon 66 SA)
Challenge:
Special wine-grape harvesting machine shakes the grapes from the vines. The grapes fall down and are collected in baskets fixed to a rotating chain which transports them to a large container at the back of the machine.
Solution:
Plastic shaking rods made from Nylon 66 SA Rods (Ertalon 66 SA) are used to remove the grapes from the vines.
Benefit:
Nylon 66 SA Rods (Ertalon 66 SA) is kind towards the grapevines. It offers excellent fatigue resistance combined with high mechanical strength and excellent wear and abrasion resistance.
Bearing Blocks for Automobile Trailers - Nylatron 703 XL
Challenge:
Trailers that deliver new automobiles to dealerships carry significant loads. The drive mechanism that raises/lowers the expensive cargo needed are costly. Frequent lubrication and regular repairs are required.
Solution:
Easily machined parts made from the extreme wear resistant Nylatron 703 XL.
Benefit:
Nylatron 703 XL excels in critical applications with the added benefits of "stick-slip" free performance, eliminating chatter and the subsequent loss of precise control.
Replacing Metal Gears with Nylon (Ertalon) and Nylatron
Challenge:
Metal gears create noise, wear mating parts and require lubrication.
Solution:
Gears machined from Nylon (Ertalon) and Nylatron can solve these problems.
Benefit:
Nylon (Ertalon) and Nylatron gears can reduce noise, eliminate the need for lubrication and act as a sacrificial link in a system, thus saving destruction of other costly components.
Insulating Washers using Nylon 66 GF30 (Ertalon 66 GF30)
Challenge:
In electrical switch-cupboards the temperature can rise up to 100°C. To protect the box against short-circuit, plastic washers are required. At higher temperatures, however, unreinforced plastics become more sensitive to creep.
Solution:
In order to minimise creep, the insulating washers are made of Nylon 66 - GF30 (Ertalon 66-GF30) which, due to its glass fibre reinforcement, looses less of its stiffness and creep resistance at elevated temperatures.
Benefit:
Good retention of mechanical properties at elevated temperatures in combinations with good electrical insulating properties.
Curve Drum using Nylon 6 PLA (Ertalon 6 PLA)
Challenge:
In this chicken processing line, the cutting tools move up and down driven by rollers moving in the slots of a cam drum. These tools are used for cutting the chicken into pieces.
Solution:
Nylon 6 PLA (Ertalon 6 PLA) was selected, due to its excellent wear resistance and its food contact compliant composition. Cast PA 6 is the only material available in the sizes requested for the drums.
Benefit:
Noise dampening, good impact resistance, availability of larger sizes were the key benefits of Nylon 6 PLA (Ertalon 6 PLA) in this applications.
Sliding Blocks on Aerial Platforms using Nylatron NSM
Challenge:
In aerial platforms, scissors are used as principle for lifting the platform, the end beams of the scissors must allow a safe and smooth movement in the guiding rail.
Solution:
For the sliding blocks, strong and extreme wear resistant Nylatron NSM has been chosen.
Benefit:
The self-lubricating Nylatron NSM provides higher wear resistance and lower friction. The internal lubricants help to prevent a jerky or intermittent motion known as stick-slip.
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