Beefy plastic gears
If this combination cam and gear was made with an equivalent metal instead of Lauramid polymer, you probably couldn’t pick it up and brandish it as Wolfgang Nagele is doing here. The part is cast from Lauramid, basically a lactam (cyclic amide) formulated by Albert Handtmann Elteka GmbH & Co. in Germany. The company is bringing the material to the States. The high-performance polymer has a high notch impact strength even at super-cold temperatures and elongates much less than fiber-reinforced polyamid 12. The material qualities come from the process used to make Lauramid: it is cast without pressure so polymerization takes place in the mold producing a fine-grained and highly crystalline structure.
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