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Please select the Length you require
- Acetal Natural Rod 150mm dia x 100mm
Our Price:£31.98(£38.38 inc VAT) - Acetal Black Rod 150mm dia x 100mm
Our Price:£32.32(£38.78 inc VAT) - Acetal Natural Rod 150mm dia x 250mm
Our Price:£72.68(£87.22 inc VAT) - Acetal Black Rod 150mm dia x 250mm
Our Price:£73.45(£88.14 inc VAT) - Acetal Natural Rod 150mm dia x 500mm
Our Price:£138.44(£166.13 inc VAT) - Acetal Black Rod 150mm dia x 500mm
Our Price:£139.91(£167.89 inc VAT) - Acetal Natural Rod 150mm dia x 1000mm
Our Price:£263.69(£316.43 inc VAT) - Acetal Black Rod 150mm dia x 1000mm
Our Price:£266.49(£319.79 inc VAT)
About Cutting

- Our price is for the total amount of pieces your entire order needs to be cut into:
For Example:
- Buy 1 sheet/rod and have it cut into 15 pieces = £10
- Buy 3 sheets/rods and have each one cut into say 5 pieces (total = 15 pieces) = £10
What to do:
- Click the "Cutting" tab in our menu to visit the cutting section (if you're not already there)
- Click the "Buy Now" button of whichever quantity corresponds to your needs
- See bottom of this page, on how to advise your sizes and any notes
Want more than 300 pieces?
- Please give our sales team a call on 0114 2560889
Notes/tips:
- Please allow at least 4mm in your cutting allowance calculations for the width of the saw cut
- We use table saws and horizontal band-saws, so edges will have a sawn finish
- We only use sawing equipment, so we are unable to offer high precision items
- Tolerances are +2mm to minus 0mm
- We aim to cut as squarely as possible although incoming materials are sometimes out of square
- We are unable to cut or machine shapes but we are happy to obtain a custom quotation for machined
shapes or parts (please call us on 0114 2560889)
How to advise your sizes:
- Please checkout your basket/cart
- Fill in your details as usual on the checkout page
- At section 5 of our checkout page, there's a "customer notes" box for you
- Please enter your sizes and any notes for us there
Acetal Rod Tolerances
Manufacturers produce engineering plastics that are slightly oversize in either diameter and/or thickness.
This oversize tolerance, which is listed in the tables below, is provided to assist customers to produce
very accurate items within the size shown and remove any minor surface imperfection.
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Acetal Rod
Acetal Rod is probably our best machining engineering plastic. It makes the machining process very easy by chipping rather than creating a continuous length of swarf that often wraps around tooling. By using very sharp cutting tools that are designed similar to smoothing tools, Acetal Rod can be machined to an outstanding surface finish with machining marks barely visible.
Does Acetal Rod need less de-burring?
Another advantage of Acetal Rod is the lack of burrs after machining. This eliminates the often time consuming process of de-burring components which ultimately saves time and money as well as this tedious process.
Is Acetal suitable for CNC Machines?
Acetal Rod lends itself incredibly well to high speed automated machining processes such as CNC lathes. It means you can load your material in at one end and rely on lovely finished machined parts at the other with very little manual input.
What is the moisture absorption of Acetal Rod?
Another advantage is that it absorbs very little moisture which means that components can be machined more accurately and can be relied upon to keep their tolerances and not expand no matter what the conditions. This means that for components that are expected to work in damp or wet conditions, Acetal Rod would provide the ideal choice.
Is Acetal Rod suitable for food applicatons?
Acetal Rod is excellent for any application where food is involved. Acetal is totally food safe as a result of its minimal moisture absorption and therefore bacteria absorption. Many companies within the food industry will often specify that their components or items are machined from Acetal and is a great reason why we have Blue Acetal Rod in stock. Blue Acetal is often particularly specified because if a component gets damaged or broken, any debris can be easily spotted in a visual inspection without losing the whole batch.
Is Acetal Rod slippery?
Another great feature is that Acetal Rod is described as being very slippery. What this means is that components will have very low friction characteristics as well as minimal initial stick. This is good for when small rotating components that need to be started very smoothly during their service, Acetal will not require any great load applied to initially create movement which often creates jerking which is a real issue in micro components.
What colours does Acetal Rod come in?
Currently the bulk of Acetal Rod is manufactured in Natural / White in colour or Black which can look better when used in an industrial environment. But as we mentioned, we now have blue Acetal in stock and are able to obtain both red and green Acetal rod to order with a very quick delivery.