Can you tap uhmw

Join Eng-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. Related Projects. Anyone have any experience drilling and tapping UHMW? I'll try and be more engineer like: 1. Can UHMW be drilled and tapped? What is the smallest tapped hole you have successfully put into UHMW? The largest? Is there a depth to diamter ratio for succesful drilling and tapping of the material?

Screws for UHMW. Posts Latest Activity Photos. Page of 1. Filtered by:. Previous template Next. Tags: None. Uncle Cracker. UHMW can be a bugger. I have used Plastite screws with some success. They are self-threading, and made specifically for plastic.

To be honest, I see little difference between these and standard course threaded metal screws, other than the Plastites have a blunt tip. The ones I have I bought from a local plastics supply house which has since gone out of business.

This becomes important when you are drilling or turning it. UHMW does not have a lot of structural strength - This plastic is slippery, not strong. You should always fasten a UHMW piece to a piece of wood or steel, especially if it is a thin piece. It depends on the application. UHMW does not bond to any glue - This can be very useful, as you can use UHMW as a facing material for any gluing jig without gluing the jig to the material you want glued.

The wood glue, once dried, will peel right off. SLED - Something that goes down hill on snow - correct? It's only because I saw UHMW in Las Vegas, many years ago - two beautiful young ladies were skating on the stuff, on a demonstration floor. The company that was advertising, with these skaters, was sell UHMW, for use on the insides of dump trucks.

To allow sticky material to swiftly slide out of the dump body. A little history from Daniel ah! At work one day we were demoing a public restroom and the panels surrounding the toliets to my surprise were made of UHMW, now I have one huge sheet that will last my lifetime, what a find Sponsored Forums Private Forums Authors. Replies: 15 Last Post: , PM. Replies: 13 Last Post: , AM. Replies: 9 Last Post: , AM.

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