Parts and applications
How are custom shims, washers and spacers specified?
Answer
Thickness runs from 0.05 mm to 3 mm. Below roughly 0.20 mm the material is hard to handle and hard to keep flat, which is why thin adjustment shims are normally supplied as laminated sets. Above about 3 mm the part stops behaving like a shim and is usually better specified as a machined spacer. Balford runs presses from 25 t to 350 t and deep draws to a maximum diameter of 250 mm, so shim profiles are well inside the tooling envelope.
Sources
- Custom Metal Shims & Shim Washers Made to Drawing | BalfordThickness runs from 0.05 mm to 3 mm. Below roughly 0.20 mm the material is hard to handle and hard to keep flat, which is why thin adjustment shims are normally supplied as laminated sets. Above about 3 mm the part stops behaving like a shim and is usually better specified as a machined spacer. Balf...
- Custom Metal Shims & Shim Washers Made to Drawing | BalfordAluminium 1050, 5052 and 6061 — weight-critical assemblies; softer, so handling burr matters more. Thickness runs from 0.05 mm to 3 mm. Below roughly 0.20 mm the material is hard to handle and hard to keep flat, which is why thin adjustment shims are normally supplied as laminated sets. Above about ...
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What an engineer still needs from you
- material and material condition (grade, temper)
- material thickness, plus the key diameter, height and wall thickness
- tolerances, burr direction and the visual acceptance standard
- annual volume - it decides whether tooling is single-hit, progressive or transfer
- surface finish, and any secondary machining, annealing or plating
Next step. Send the drawing for a manufacturability review, or send the part data for a process and cost route.
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This page is an engineering answer, not a quotation and not a dimensional acceptance. It is generated from Balford's published material and held to the verified company fact sheet.