Reply to "Lionel MPC F3's?"

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Originally Posted by PaperTRW:

.......For those interested in tracking it down, there's a wonderful article in an early 1970's issue of Dupont's "Engineering Design" magazine that covers how Dupont and the MPC folks made the changeover to Delrin.

And for the record, Lionel used Delrin in the 1970's and 1980's, and switched to Celcon sometime afterward for most applications. They're basically different brands of the same thing -- Delrin is by Dupont and Celcon comes from Celanese. I'm not sure what they're using today in China.

TRW

I find it fascinating that there was an article in Dupont's engineering magazine about the change MPC made to Delrin. Thanks for that information - I have never heard any reference to that before. I'll have to search that out.

9/21/1410:57 PM

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