Hi Mike, thanks for your thoughts, and sharing your experience with the double-sided tape... we have unfortunately had a similar experience. :)
I see what you are saying for the manufacturing, and we have rough designs for a future version which will do it exactly as you have mentioned. I...
Dhengr, Thanks again for your post. I'll talk over the rubber gasketing system with our production manager.
I've finally had a chance to draft the current system that I'm talking about. It's not as simple as I thought! (no surprise there though...)
It's attached as a PDF.
I hope that this...
IFRs, thanks for that input!
I wasn't able to get the drawings today at work (too many simultaneous things going on!). I should be able to finish some urgent stuff tomorrow though.
Mike Halloran,
Thanks a lot for your kind guidance. All good points, and all taken.
Regarding the assembly issues, we are in the solar module industry, and make a PVT module. I've visited a plant which produces flat plate PV panels and seen how they do it: it is a groove as we are proposing...
Update: I got some feedback from the PV Panel industry: they use 1.2mm clearance at the root of the channel, and 1.25mm clearance on both sides of the glass in the channel.
Our glass is thicker and the span is longer, so I'm not convinced that these numbers will work in my application. But...
Dear Dhengr,
Thanks for your reply! I was not sure if I should provide the full drawings or not, hence tried to "generalize" my question.
I'll try to make a good drawing of the current application at work on Monday. In the mean time, I can try to explain it:
The glass is horizontally...
Hi friends!
Well, after quite a few hours of drafting and testing, we have come to the conclusion that just for structural integrity, we will need to put the glass into a slot in the AL frame.
Therefore, I have to resurrect this thread, as I'm back to square 1. :) However, I do have more...
@cloa,
Good point. The coolant is Tyfocor L (or LS... whichever one has the Al inhibitor in it). The coolant is likely to be in touch with steel or stainless steel heat exchangers somewhere else in the circuit.
Hi everyone!
Thanks alot for your replies! You've cleared up a lot of questions I had.
My apologies that you couldn't use the step file. Right now I'm in the middle of editing the files, once I can I'll generate a screenshot and post back here.
With this input, I guess that we should use...
@CoryPad, thanks for your recommendation! Still, since the fastner diameter (M3 bolts) is 3mm, the engadgement link would be 6mm, which really doesn't seem like enough to me, given that the bolts need to withstand 3120.81N tensile force.
@IRstuff,
Strange you couldn't see the stp files. I...
Hi! Beginner engineer here...
My company wants to get rid of a costly aluminum welding step and replace it with a bolted-on joinery with rubber flanges. I want to get your (more informed) opinions on whether this will work? I'm concerned that there will be bi-metallic corrosion between the...
Thank you all for your answers. I think I got what I was hoping for, which was a better understanding of the variables involved.
To reply:
@racookpe1978, a comprehensive statistical evaluation is definitely the right way, but multiple pressures require less precise approaches.
@dhengr, my...
Hi friends! This question might seem very simple, please bear with. :)
I'm a mechanical engineer just joining the workforce, and need to re-design the product of my company. As part of this, I need to re-design the aluminium frame for a large glass sheet.
The previous design used a 3M tape...
