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from: ben{at}davies.net
date: 2003-02-17 15:04:10
subject: Re: ATM UHMW instead of Teflon?

From: "Ben Davies" 
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Reply-To: "Ben Davies" 


My son had one of his suppliers send me couple of big blocks of Vespel - a
graphite filled polyamide.

It is wonderful stuff.....has a very low coefficient of friction, over
300,000 psi  compressive modulus, machines well.

http://www.boedeker.com/vespel_p.htm for some details.

Ben

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