Nylon 66.

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Polyamide obtained by the polymerisation of Hexamethylenediamine and Adipic acid. It is one of the oldest plastics
used for engineering, having been created in the US in the 1930's. Due to its origin it's used widelly in the American and
UK markets. In comparison to PA6 it's stiffer and tougher but more brittle. It's advisable to use PA66 instead of PA6 when
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a higher stiffness is required to the detriment of resiliance. It can be easily machined and all our stoch shapes of PA66
are marked along the whole length with product code and batch number, according to ISO 9002 standards.

Physical Properties (indicative values)

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Density ISO 1183 g/cm 1.14
Water absorbtion - Figures relate to specimen conditioned at 23°C and 50 RH.
- at saturation in air of 23°C / 50% R.H. ISO 62 % 2.6 Figures between brackets relate to dry specimen. Figures
- at saturation in water 23°C ISO 62 % 8 for materials marked with * can change according to their
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES moisture content.
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Tensile stress at yield and break ISO 527 N/mm 61
Elongation at break ISO 527 % 150 - Figures refer to un-coloured samples either injection
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Tensile modulus of elasticity ISO 527 N/mm 1900 moulded or machined in the easiest way. Tests made on
Compression test samples of different sizes give slightly different results.
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- 1% strain after 1,000 hrs ISO 899 N/mm 7
2 (12)
Charpy impact strength - Notched ISO 179-1/1eU KJ/mm 18 Test on ground steel dry specimen load
Charpy impact strength - Unnotched ISO 179-1/1eA KJ/mm
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no break 0.05 N/mm2 speed =0.6 m/s
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Ball indentation hardness ISO 2039 N/mm 100
Shore hardness D ISO 2039 D 89
(15)
Deformation at temperature . HDT at 1.8 N/mm2
(12)
Coefficient of frition to steel ISO 8295 - 0.42
(17)
THERMAL PROPERTIES Operating temperature continuously 5000h. From 23°C
Melting temperature ISO 3156 °C 255 upwards, the materials' features change in a non-uniform
Thermal conductivity at 23°C ISO 22007.2 W/9km) 0.25 and disproportional way. The quoted limits are indicative
Deformation temperature(15) ISO 75 °C 103 and based on a tensile stress of 50% of the value at 23°C.
Coefficient of linear thermal expansion
(18)
- average value between 23 and 60°C ISO 11359 m(m.K) 85 x 10-6 Operating temperature short period (no load).
Max. allowable service temperature in air
- Continuously(17) - °C 95
(19)
The mechanical features decrease with a reduction in
- Short periods(18) - °C 165 temperature and are also influenced by other factors
(19)
Minimum service temperature - °C -30 (moisture, etc). The quoted values do not take into
Flamability consideration impact conditions or heavy loads.
- Oxygen index ISO 4589 % 24
- according to UL 94 (3/6 thickness) UL94 - V2 This table, is mainly to be used for comparison purposes.
ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES It's a valuable tool to help in the choice of material. The
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Dilectrical constant ISO 250 - 7 data listed here falls within the normal range of product
Dielectric strength ISO 243 KV/mm 25 properties. However, they aren't guaranteed and shouldn't
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Volume resistivity ISO 93 Ωcm 10 be used to establish material specification limits nor used
Dissipation factor tan ∆ at 1 MHz ISO 250 - 0.06 alone as the basis of design.
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