Tufnol suppliers

[ukracer]

I am trying to find some tufnol 20mm thick. Approx 100mm x 1000mm.
Anyone know of a decent supplier we don't have anyone round here now sadly.

 

[Martin-Sy]

If Tufnol is the same as SRBF then these folks:

SRBF

I've had quite a bit of 6mm SRBP cut-to-size from them.
Very prompt service.

SRBF is a bit more expensive than SRBP
(SRB = synthetic resin bonded ...P=paper ...F=fibre)

 

[OJCar]

Tufnol aka Paxolin, Croylam, Phenolic Cotton, SRBP & SRBF

Try Plastics Direct either;
On ebay
Or Their website

(No connection just satisfied customer).

 

[Pete.]

Is it for electrical insulation?

 

[Brad93]

CARP for gears, WHALE for electrical if I remember correctly

 

[oldbikedavey]

Think that Tufnol Composites are still in business, but they may have been devoured by their own menagerie....

 

[ukracer]

Is it for electrical insulation?

Guide for a welder.

They get clamped Into a brace and drill a hole in as a guide, then a spot welder clamps down 3 spots at One time

 

[graffian]

I used to get it from a plastics place, several around me sold it but I always ended up at a place on the old aerodrome on Purley Way.
I made carb spacers from it, I should remember the thickness as I have bits of it in my scrap cabinet, but can't.

 

[Robotstar5]

Guide for a welder.

They get clamped Into a brace and drill a hole in as a guide, then a spot welder clamps down 3 spots at One time

We had similar guides at Longbridge on some of the spot welding fixtures, they used a hard wearing white plastic type material, Tufnol would burn/char and flake away with the heat.

 

[Brad93]

Guide for a welder.

They get clamped Into a brace and drill a hole in as a guide, then a spot welder clamps down 3 spots at One time

We used to use tufnol all The time for this. I'm not sure which one. It was paper reinforced not fibre.

 

[oldbikedavey]

Just flicking through a Tufnol manual here, and the varieties mentioned are :
Heron , Kite, Swan, Ketch, Carp, Lynx, Vole, Whale, Crow, Bear, Asp, and Adder.
Asp and Adder are asbestos paper based....
There are also Swan C.P, Grade 3P/46, and Grade 6F/45.
The feathery ones are paper based with phenolic resin apart from Crow, which is cotton fabric based with phenolic resin, along with all the mammalian types.
Not sure what a Ketch is, other than Jack Ketch, of whom the less said, the better.....

 

[Brad93]

Kite. That's the one I believe