General Instructions for Machining Aluminium Enclosures

Please make sure that all remnants of any coolants or lubricants used in machining are removed of plastic parts are to be attached to aluminium enclosures (e.g. plastic cable gland, adapters, plugs etc.) Coolants and lubricants can cause plastic parts to become brittle and split. Moreover, it should on principle be remembered that when aluminium castings are machined enlosed air bubbles, known as shrinkage holes, can be revealed. In the casting process and alloys we use very few shrinkage holes occur.

Instructions for Machining Aluminium Plates

We offer aluminium front plates for many of our plastic enclosures, for design and stability reasons.
These aluminium front plates are cut out of anodized plate material. So the surfaces have an anodized layer, but not the cut edges.
Please remenber that screenprinting or tampon printing on the anodized layer may not always adhere properly. If we are machining and imprinting front plates to customer specifications we use aluminium plate material which, depending on the requirements, is only anodized after imprinting. The advantage of this is:
All the edges are corrosion-proof and any imprinting will not rub off.