Threaded Inserts for Plastics, Woods,
light-Metal Alloys & Composite materials
Discover how involving Tappex at the start of a project can help avoid costly rework and potential product failures… In the rapidly evolving world of electric vehicle batteries, even the smallest components can have a big impact on performance, safety, and reliability. Projects can be complex and solutions aren’t always apparent if it’s something you […]
Discover how Tappex’s Technical Advisory Service can prevent small issues from becoming big multi-million-pound problems… In the world of automotive engineering design, it’s sometimes the smallest components that can cause the biggest headaches. This exact issue was experienced by a leading global automotive manufacturer when a seemingly insignificant part threatened to jeopardise the quality of […]
Tappex Thread Inserts have a wide range of standard inserts that are in stock and meet the majority of our customers performance and installation requirements. In some cases, the application specification can mean that a variant longer, shorter, with a special thread or other feature needs to be developed to satisfy the requirements. Alternatively, an […]
A local moulding company, who makes interior components for the automotive industry, recently contacted us having researched our Generation 3 multi-point Heat Installation tool. They had an injection moulded component that required post mould insertion of 4 Tappex Multiserts. Our customer told us they are keen to use new and innovative equipment and to develop […]
Tappex were recently approached by a department within a major Broadcaster, who is responsible for creating unique equipment for capturing video footage, to be used in wildlife documentaries. The request was for 1/4 and 3/8 BSW threaded inserts, to be fitted into 3D printed components. These thread sizes have historically been used for photographic camera […]
Tappex were recently approached by a well-known, premium sports-car manufacturer, looking for a solution to an electric vehicle application, where a double ended male insert was required to allow current to pass through a PC/ABS moulding. The moulding required two inserts per part and these were to be used, to join electrical cables for a […]
The Brief The customer was using cold press fitted inserts into a core compact laminate table top. They were experiencing insert failures with their current inserts. Tappex were approached to provide a self-tapping alternative; testing was required to provide comparison to their current insert. The Solution The customer provided a sample table top for testing […]
A midlands based historic motor-racing team required a neat and lightweight solution for attaching a steering wheel to a steering wheel centre in a historic race car. Using 6 off Trisert-3’s self-tapping 6238M5-303 inserts installed into the machined T6 Aluminium centre, they were able to reduce the length of the bolts they would normally use […]
