Polyoxymethylene - Usage

Usage

  • Mechanical gears, sliding and guiding elements, housing parts, springs, chains, screws, nuts, fan wheels, pump parts, valve bodies.
  • Electrical Engineering: insulators, bobbins, connectors, parts for electronic devices such as televisions, telephones, etc.
  • Vehicle: Fuel sender unit, Light stock (including shifter for light, turn signal), power windows, door lock systems, articulated shells.
  • Model: Model Railway parts, such as bogies and handle bars. POM breaks under load slightly less than ABS, but in bright translucent colors, and not paintable.
  • Medical: insulin pen, Metered dose inhalers (MDI)
  • Furniture: hardware, locks, handles, hinges, or even curtains roles.
  • Construction: Structural Glass - pod holder for point
  • Packaging: aerosol cans, vehicle tanks.
  • Sports: Paintball accessories. It is often used for machined parts of paintball markers that do not require the strength of aluminum, such as handles and reciprocating bolts. POM is also used in airsoft guns, in order to reduce the noise of the piston.
  • Clothing: zippers.
  • Music: picks, Irish flutes, Bagpipes, Practice chanters, harpsichord plectra, tuba mouthpieces.
  • Dining: Fully automatic coffee brewers; knife handles (particularly folding knives)
  • The Food and Drug Administration has approved Delrin for use in the food industry.
  • Horology: Watch bracelets (e.g. IWC Porsche Design 3701)

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