Threaded Pipe Elbow Body
Elbow body with an external thread, a retaining collar and a molded inspection window.
Threaded Pipe Elbow Body
Threaded Pipe Elbow Body is one of the parts molded on tooling built at our Dongguan shop. Elbow body with an external thread, a retaining collar and a molded inspection window.
Where the geometry carries several side actions we prove the open-to-close sequence with a mold motion simulation before the design review closes.
Our engineering team reads customer mold standards and special requirements in English, so a specification written for a European or North American tool shop does not have to be rewritten for us.
Key Benefits
- Final mold and packing inspection before the tool is shipped
- Built for more than 1 million shots, so the tool outlives the first production year
- Full 3D design issued in your own CAD format
- MoldFlow filling, packing, warpage and cooling on mass production tooling
Problems It Solves
- Warpage found at assembly rather than in the cooling study
- Corrections argued verbally because no sample dimension report was ever issued
- Tools shipped without a final inspection, arriving damaged and undocumented
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 Threaded Pipe Elbow Body 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 | Threaded Pipe Elbow Body |
|---|---|
| Reference on our catalogue | Pipe&Tube 5 |
| 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 Threaded Pipe Elbow Body 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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Barbed Pipe Connector with Mounting Bracket
Barbed spigot connector with an integrated flat mounting bracket and clip.
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Plastic Tee Pipe Connector
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View details →Threaded Pipe Elbow Body — Buyer Questions
Is a prototype tool worth it before the production mold?
It is when the design is not yet frozen. Rapid prototype mold making is one of our listed services, priced low and built for a fast lead time, and what the trial shows feeds the DFM for the production tool.
How long does a quotation take for Threaded Pipe Elbow Body?
We return a professional mold quotation within 2 working days. Send the 3D data, the resin and the expected annual volume and that is usually enough to quote without a second round of questions.
Can you handle the side actions this part needs?
Tools with several slides or lifters go through a mold motion simulation before the design review closes, so the open-to-close sequence is proven step by step rather than discovered at first trial.
Are you certified?
Yes — ISO 9001:2015, with the scope recorded on the certificate as: Design, Manufacture and Service of Injection Molded Moulds; Manufacture and Service of Plastic Injection Molded Parts. The certificate is shown on our quality page.
Quote Threaded Pipe Elbow Body
Send the 3D data, the resin and the annual volume. A professional quotation with technical comment comes back within two working days.