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BUSHINGS
The essence of Dimension Bond is to
prevent metal-to-metal contact. This is exactly what any inserted bushings are meant to
provide. Since the 1950s, the chemistry of the bushing with a bronze/PTFE layer has been
commonly used. Dimension Bond technology provides accuracy and
parallelism and concentricity unavailable with inserted bushings. Dimension
Bond can duplicate the bronze/PTFE overlay materials that have been standard into the
bushing. These materials have not improved nor have the capabilities of improving them
existed because the fundamental nature in which the Dry Unlubricated or split-ring bushing
is created. Dimension Bond can offer several grades of bronze and
the very same PTFE-based compounds as are found in off-the-shelf bushings to this day. As
a grade with proven higher performance well beyond the conventional bushing material, Dimension Bond has optimized the bronze alloy and combined that with
contemporary engineering plastic with nano-composite additives in the overcoat to produce
a bearing surface that is bonded permanently to the parent metal. This has the added
advantage of vastly improved tribological capabilities of the polymer (ptfe) layer
commonly found in bushings. This results in extended wear life for the DB processed
component in side-by-side OE testing. Bushings cannot provide the thickness range of
bronze that Dimension Bond can selectively provide.
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