Plastic Tee Pipe Connector
Three-way tee with barbed ends and molded O-ring seats.
Plastic Tee Pipe Connector
Plastic Tee Pipe Connector is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Three-way tee with barbed ends and molded O-ring seats.
3D data for this tool is issued in whichever format your own toolroom opens without translation: STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks.
Quality control on a part like this starts at the initial stage rather than at final inspection, and runs through pre-DFM, mold design, fabrication, trials and the final check before delivery.
Key Benefits
- Reply to every enquiry inside 24 hours
- Design review meeting before the design reaches you
- Final mold and packing inspection before the tool is shipped
- A written DFM before fabrication, so changes happen while they are still cheap
Problems It Solves
- Long silences between the purchase order and the first sign of progress
- Side actions that collide on the first close because the sequence was never simulated
- Tooling quoted without an engineering study, so the first trial is also the first analysis
Who It Is For
- Plumbing and sanitary system manufacturers
- Automotive and appliance fluid circuit suppliers
- Irrigation and water treatment equipment makers
- Assemblers sourcing a family of matched fittings
Application Scenarios
- Barbed connectors and tee pieces
- Threaded elbows and adaptor bodies
- Multi-port manifolds and valve housings
- Y connectors and branch fittings
How the Tool Behind Plastic Tee Pipe Connector Is Built
- Design
Full 3D mold design completed to one hundred percent and checked in a design review meeting.
- DFM and MoldFlow
A written DFM for your comment, and filling, packing, warpage and cooling analysis on mass production tools.
- Machining
CNC and EDM work with steel inspected dimensionally after machining and electrodes inspected before burning.
- Trial and inspection
Mold trial with trial report and sample dimension report, then final mold and packing inspection.
Technical Data
The source material for this site records the part, its category and the photograph. Dimensions, resin grade, cavity count and tolerances are project data and are confirmed in the quotation.
| Product name | Plastic Tee Pipe Connector |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Pipe&Tube 2 |
| Category | Pipe & Tube Parts |
| Process | Plastic injection molding |
| Tooling built by | Dongguan JEC Mold Co., Limited, Dongguan, China |
| Designed tool life | More than 1 million shots |
| Mold standard | Customer standard, or DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI |
| Design data formats | STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks |
| Quality system | ISO 9001:2015 — Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts |
| Part dimensions | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Resin or alloy grade | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Cavity count | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Dimensional tolerance | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Surface finish | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
| Annual volume | TBC — confirmed in the quotation |
What Is Checked
- Customer mold specification and requirement review and discussion during the kick-off meeting
- 3D and 2D mold design review meeting before the design is sent to you, and a final check before fabrication
- Incoming material inspection
- Steel hardness inspection and steel certification
- Electrode dimension and surface finish inspection
- Steel dimension inspection after machining
- Mold trial reports with a sample dimension report (FAI)
- Final mold inspection and packing inspection
Certification
ISO 9001:2015 — scope: Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts.
Customization
Mold standard, cavity count, gating strategy, surface finish and mold base supplier are all specified per project. Tell us what your own standard requires and it is folded into the DFM rather than handled as a change later.
Compared With a Prototype Tool
A production mold for Plastic Tee Pipe Connector is built to run for more than 1 million shots and is documented with a trial report and a sample dimension report. A rapid prototype mold answers a different question — is the design right — at a lower price and a faster lead time, and is not built for that life. If the design is still moving, the prototype stage is usually the cheaper route into the production tool.
Rapid Prototype MoldsUse Guide
- Send 3D part data in STEP, IGES, Parasolid, CATIA, SolidWorks
- State the resin or alloy, the annual volume and the mold standard
- Comment on the DFM before fabrication — that is the cheapest point to change anything
- Review the trial report and sample dimension report against your own drawing before release
- Keep the mold standard on file so spares stay available locally
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Y Type Pipe Connector
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45 Degree Pipe Elbow with Flange
45-degree elbow with a flanged base and a molded-in identification panel.
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Multi Port Valve Housing
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View details →Plastic Tee Pipe Connector — Buyer Questions
How do you inspect the steel used for Plastic Tee Pipe Connector?
Incoming material inspection first, then steel hardness inspection with steel certification, then dimensional inspection after machining. Electrodes are inspected for dimension and surface finish before they are used.
Can you supply replacement inserts for a tool already in production?
Precision components making with CNC and EDM machining is a service we sell on its own. Send the insert drawing or the 3D data and we will quote it as a component job.
What will we receive when the mold for Plastic Tee Pipe Connector is tried?
Mold trial reports together with a sample dimension report (FAI). Those documents are what any later dimensional discussion is settled against.
Can you work to our own mold standard for Plastic Tee Pipe Connector?
Yes. Mold design follows your own standard where you have one, and otherwise a global standard such as DME / Meusburger / HASCO / Progressive / MISUMI. Naming the standard in the enquiry avoids re-specifying components later in the design.
Quote Plastic Tee Pipe Connector
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.