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    Delrin 500T living hinge problem

    Thanks for the advice. @Pud: the Delrin 500T is a copolymer as far as I understand. We tried a homopolymer which behaved worse. @Pat: 1)The plastic is dried prior to molding. 2)This is a hot manifold system, running at between 380-390F at the tips, barrel temp about the same, We've tried...
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    Delrin 500T living hinge problem

    I am having irregular random failures in a part with a living hinge molded out of Delrin 500T. Some parts coming out of the tool work great, some don't. Those that don't break on the first 3-10 bends seem to last forever. The part does need to be delrin instead of PP and Nylon for some of the...
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    extruding raised or recessed text

    I have searched in Inventor Help and haven't been able to find how to do this. Is it possible to create raised or recessed text on a part preferably with a choice of font? Or is there an alphabet somewhere that I can download and scale width and height for my particular need? Thanks in advance.

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