Plas-Fix® 60 installation guide
This article provides installation assistance for the metric Plas-Fix® 60 Screw for Plastic.
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Summary
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The Plas-Fix® 60 is a trilobular bodied, high performance metric threadforming screw for plastic for use in a variety of plastics Typical soft plastics include: nylon, acetal, ABS Typical hard plastics include: glass filled varieties, DMC and in some cases, phenolics |
Hole sizes and thread data
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| Metric dimensions | ||||||||||||
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| Screw size | Thread dimensions (mm) | Hole sizes based on percentage of thread engagement in soft plastics (mm) | Suggested hole size hard plastics (mm) | |||||||||
| C | D | |||||||||||
| Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | 100% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | ||
| 2-28 | 2.18 | 2.34 | 2.11 | 2.26 | 1.89 | 1.92 | 1.96 | 1.99 | 2.03 | 2.07 | 2.1 | 2.03 |
| 4-20 | 3.07 | 3.23 | 2.97 | 3.12 | 2.46 | 2.54 | 2.59 | 2.67 | 2.72 | 2.79 | 2.87 | 2.69 |
| 6-19 | 3.58 | 3.73 | 3.48 | 3.63 | 3 | 3.05 | 3.12 | 3.18 | 3.25 | 3.3 | 3.35 | 3.25 |
| 8-16 | 4.55 | 4.7 | 4.39 | 4.55 | 3.66 | 3.76 | 3.84 | 3.94 | 4.01 | 4.11 | 4.19 | 3.99 |
| 10-14 | 5.23 | 5.38 | 5.13 | 5.28 | 4.32 | 4.42 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.88 | 4.7 |
Ideally, the minimum length of engagement should be two times the C dimension.
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| Inch dimensions | ||||||||||||
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| Nominal screw size | Thread dimensions (inches) | Hole sizes based on percentage of thread engagement in soft plastics (inches) | Suggested hole size hard plastics (inches) | |||||||||
| C | D | |||||||||||
| Min. | Max. | Min. | Max. | 100% | 90% | 80% | 70% | 60% | 50% | 40% | ||
| 2-28 | 0.086 | 0.092 | 0.083 | 0.089 | 0.074 | 0.076 | 0.077 | 0.078 | 0.08 | 0.081 | 0.083 | 0.08 |
| 4-20 | 0.121 | 0.127 | 0.117 | 0.123 | 0.097 | 0.1 | 0.102 | 0.105 | 0.107 | 0.11 | 0.113 | 0.106 |
| 6-19 | 0.141 | 0.147 | 0.137 | 0.143 | 0.118 | 0.12 | 0.123 | 0.125 | 0.128 | 0.13 | 0.132 | 0.128 |
| 8-16 | 0.179 | 0.185 | 0.173 | 0.179 | 0.144 | 0.148 | 0.151 | 0.155 | 0.158 | 0.162 | 0.165 | 0.157 |
| 10-14 | 0.206 | 0.212 | 0.202 | 0.208 | 0.17 | 0.174 | 0.177 | 0.181 | 0.185 | 0.189 | 0.192 | 0.185 |
Ideally, the minimum length of engagement should be two times the C dimension.