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When buying extruded rubber or elastomeric
parts:
 Be
sure the manufacturer can handle a variety of flexible materials;
an experienced vendor may be able to help you specify a new or
better material for your application.- Be sure the vendor quotes your exact specifications.
- Use a Durometer measure of material hardness
using a Shore A scale. Ratings very from very soft at 30 to very
hard at 90.
- Be sure the vendor can offer a variety of
curing processes. We are experienced in salt bath, autoclave,
convection, hot air, microwave and mandrel methods.
- Ask your vendor if they use a variety of
cutting processes. Fairchild uses lathe cutting for precision
tolerance parts and throp cutting for economy.
- Not all extrusion vendors can add other
materials to a part. Fairchild can add cord (as used in heater
hose), flocking (as used in window channels), spring steel or
wire (to create a functional seal with a decorative edge), nylon
(as used in belting and heater hose) or the application of tapes
- rubber-based, acrylic or heat-activated.
- Be sure your vendor offers multiple splicing
techniques. Fairchild offers vulcanization for both dense and
sponge profiles and cold splices as an economical alternative.
- Be sure your vendor offers, at minimal cost,
prototypes that may be tested for dimensions, tolerances, materials
and environment.
When buying molded rubber or elastomeric parts:
 Be
sure the manufacturer can handle a variety of flexible materials;
an experienced vendor may be able to help you specify a new or
better material for your application.- Be sure the vendor quotes your exact specifications.
- Be sure the vendor has experience in producing
a variety of products. We specialize in a variety of applications
and provide smaller components such as grommets, plugs and gaskets
to larger items such as vehicular mats, heater hose, stick shift
boots and motor mounts.
- Your vendor should be experienced in a variety
of molding processes, such as injection, compression, transfer,
and dip molding.
- The vendor should also under specialized
processes such as: nylon-cored materials, rubber-to-metal bonding,
providing assembled components, die-cutting, precision grinding,
and sub-assembly work.
- Be sure your vendor offers, at minimal cost,
prototypes that may be tested for dimensions, tolerances, materials
and environment. Fairchild offers a single-cavity prototyping
tool so that the design may be tested and evaluated in application.
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