Hi all,
We have a plastic (UHMWPE or nylon) wheel. It's 30mm in diameter, and only 4mm wide.
Want to measure the surface roughness across the 4mm face.
Does anyone know is it possible to measure surface roughness on plastics like that?
And across such a short distance while on a radius...
Kyle,
That is apparently not an uncommon outcome.
I've heard more than one story of companies sourcing tooling from China because it's "inexpensive", only to have to create all new tooling locally because the Chinese tool was not usable. Now you've made two tools, and wasted weeks or months...
I thought there would be more success stories than that. Maybe successful projects stand out less. Or people don't want to share their secrets, if they worked long and hard to find a good supplier. Fair enough, I guess.
In the end I quoted with one Chinese supplier with Western...
I don't plan any trips for this part.
We plan to make 30,000 pieces per year.
It's a throw-away part, part of the packaging, no real aesthetic requirements, dead simple design. So thought it's a good candidate to make in China.
Also thought maybe there would be some companies with a Western...
Hello fellow product design engineers,
I'm designing a simple injection molded part.
Open-shut tool, part about 3.85" x3.25" x 1.5"[98mm x 83mm x 37mm]
Other companies I've worked for had Chinese suppliers already for their industry. Now I'm doing work for a new company with no leads, and...
