Overview
A plastic flanged bushing is a molded sleeve with a flange at one end. It is molded as one part: a straight sleeve with a bore through it, a wide flange at the base, and a lead-in chamfer at the mouth of the bore.
The sleeve presses into a bore and the flange stops it at the face, so the part seats at the same depth every time. The flange face takes the axial rub from whatever turns or slides on it and spreads that rub over a wide ring instead of the thin sleeve wall, keeping wear off the housing.
A shaft runs in the bore, and the sleeve keeps it off the housing along its length.
Key Features & Benefits
- Flange at the base: stops the sleeve at a set depth in the housing
- Wide flange face: takes the rub over a full ring
- Straight bore: the shaft runs on a plain sleeve with no key or thread
- Lead-in chamfer: the shaft finds the bore without catching the mouth
- Even wall: the sleeve sits square through the housing bore
Wall, bore and flange all come off the model, so a plastic flanged bushing from one tool presses to the same depth every time.
Customization Options
- Bore: diameter and length
- Outside diameter: the fit into your housing
- Sleeve length
- Flange: diameter and thickness
- Chamfer: lead-in at the mouth of the bore
- Material: nylon, acetal or a glass filled grade
- Color: black, white or a matched shade
Two sleeve lengths can run in one tool on different inserts, so one plastic flanged bushing covers two housing depths. A split line can be added when the part has to close on a shaft already in place.
Quality & Delivery
Tooling for a plastic flanged bushing is cut in our own mold shop, and the first article is gauged against your 3D file, bore and flange thickness included, before the run is released.
Mold faces are polished to the sheen your 3D file calls for, the gate is trimmed flush, and the flange of every plastic flanged bushing comes off the tool flat so it seats on a housing face with no rock. Lead time is quoted with the unit price and held to the date, and each batch is gauged before packing.
We mold every plastic flanged bushing to your 3D file, so the bore, the wall and the flange follow the model. Send the 3D file for a quotation with the tool cost and the unit price.
Related Capabilities
A ring with no flange sits beside this plastic flanged bushing. Our ring bushing sets a gap between two faces, and the machined bushing and sleeve is cut rather than molded.
Where a sleeve has to stop on a shaft, the stop sleeve and the round sleeve do the job without a flange.
Molding runs in house on our mold making floor, with injection molding for the bushing. Our automotive plastic parts page groups vehicle work, our capabilities page lists the cells and our works page shows past jobs.
