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Silicone swelling is an efficient, low-cost and hassle-free method of joining silicone parts. Using a swelling fluid is one of the best ways to simplify medical device assembly. It will increase your throughput and boost your productivity.Silicone elastomers are widely used in the medical device industry. The remarkable physical properties of silicone — durable, flexible,…

Do not add IPA alcohol to Duraglide to “top off” the tank of bath. If add IPA to the formula it will not be “in-spec.” There is no IPA in the carrier fluid formulation, so adding IPA to the Duraglide will by definition put it out of sec. It also would impact the quality of the…

Vapor degreasers actually are pretty simple machines. They use a straightforward thermo-mechanical process — boiling and condensing a low-boiling cleaning fluid — in conjunction with some clever hardware design to deliver high quality cleaning quickly, consistently, easily and inexpensively.The Vapor Degreaser DesignA vapor degreaser is a special type of still. In the simplest form, the degreaser boils…

In a perfect world, every component would be manufactured exactly to specification. But perfection drives costs higher so it makes sense to accommodate variations — tolerances —as long as they do not compromise the finished assembly.But there is a catch. If a device features four or five nested components, the components may be at the…