What Customers Should Know About PTFE Tubing
PTFE Tubing is essential. It has literally been used in everything from construction to medical tubes that hold vital medicines and otherwise. It is strong and highly protective of what it needs to be, and realistically speaking, you cannot do anything without it. This being said, there are the best PTFE tubing and the worst. It can be hard to tell the difference if you don’t actually know what you are looking for. But here are a few things to look for.
*Lubricity-basically speaking you get low friction as compared to other materials and even as compared to other lower quality PTFE tubing.
*hydrophobic-yes, you don’t want it to stick to things or get wet easily. This will create low surface tension with water.
*electrical insulation-this is extremely important because you don’t want it spreading, causing damage, etc.
*chemical resistance-a lot of times, people use PTFE tubing to carry harsh and harmful chemicals or chemicals that you don’t want mixing with anything else. So it’s extremely important to have this.
*suitable for all temperatures. Whether you are below 0 or up to 500 degrees in temperature, you want it to be able to handle it. this also means being flame resistant, which is all extremely vital to say the least.
