Plastic Spools for Solder and Tape

Precision Spools offers a full line of plastic solder and tape spools ranging from 50 lbs. down to 1/4 lb. for precision winding on automatic winding equipment.

Plastic Solder Spools
Solder Capacity	Flange Diameter	Traverse	Barrel Outer Dimension	Bore
1/4 lb.	2-1/8"	5/8"	1.12"	1"
1/2 lb.	2-1/8"	1-1/8"	1.12"	1"
1/2 lb.(1-3/4x2-1/8)	1-3/4"	2-1/8"	1.12"	1"
1 lb.(2x5 - 750)	2-1/8"	2"	.870"	3/4"
1 lb. (2x5 - 1)	2-5/32"	2-1/8"	1.12"	1"
5 lbs.	3-1/2"	3"	.870"	3/4"
25 lbs.	6-1/2"	3-3/4"	1-7/8"	3/4"
50 lbs.	6-1/2"	7-1/4"	1-7/8"	3/4"
Plastic Tape Spools
Tape Spool	Flange Diameter	Traverse	Barrel Outer Dimension	Bore
1/2" x 2-1/2	1-5/8"	5/8"	1.12"	1"
1/2" x 5	2-1/8"	5/8"	1.12"	1"
1" x 5	2-1/8"	1-1/8"	1.12"	1"
1/2" x 10	2-13/16"	5/8"	1.12"	1"
1" x 10	2-13/16"	1-1/8"	1.12"	1"
2" x 10	2-13/16"	2-1/8"	1.12"	1"
1/2" x 1	1-1/2"	5/8"	1.12"	1"

Snap-Fit Shells For Tape and Solder Spools Sizes Available 1/2" x 2-1/2 1/2" x 5 1/2" x 10 1" x 5 1" x 10 2" x 5

Molded Plastic Spools and Reels
Packaging the product in a saleable size and shape has always been a real challenge to manufactures. Manufacturing engineers tended to worry more about the processes of production than about the package. Now some industries have poeple whose job is package engineering. Presently, the use of plastics as a means of packaging products in an evergrowing application for that material in many shapes and sizes.
Back in the years 1967, Dustin Hoffman played the Graduate in the classic movie of the same name. The one word "Plastics" was confidentially given as the password to a promising career.
At that time, not all applications met with success. Some gave the material a bad name. Continued progress in developing new compounds and techniques of manufacture have changed that.
There are so many corners of the plastics industry. It is hard to imagine that any one company could fill them all. The trick seems to be to find a niche in the overall market and go for it.
We see in the Company Profile section of the July 2005 of this publication that thirty years ago David and Dorothy Chiorgno started a company, now two corporations - Pittsfield Plastics Engineering, Inc.(PPE) & Precision Spools, Inc.
The location is Pittsfield, MA, USA. The profile says this city is known as the "Plastics Capital of North American." That is reminiscent of Detroit, MI, USA being the auto capital and Akron, OH, USA the rubber (now polyer) capital. Pittsfield has a high concentration of technology, resources and trained employees. The niche that this husband and wife team of Dorothy and David chose was the desgin and manufacture of injection molds for plastic. Their company has grown with the industry.
Success in one niche led to moving into others. For customer that have a product design they wish to have injection molded, the talent at PPE can design and develop the mold.
This led to the need for an injection machine for tryout and then to moving from prototype through final decoration, assembly and packaging. Now, the company will delivery to meet its customers' needs or their "zero inventory" (JIT) production schedules. Then came the state-of-the-art-injection molding facility. So now there is a full-service plastic injection moldng company. It provides high-capacity, fast turnaround production of injection molded plastic parts, and custom desigined molds. In 1998, the Chiorgnos were ready to sell the busniess. They would stay aorund a while to help in the transition to new owners. They still come in. Tom Walker, now President and some associates bought the bunisess. He has a team of talented people with extensive experience in the industry. Included on the team is Peter Olsta, a man well known in the plastic reel industry. With all that talent and equipment, it is natural that the company has developed product lines. These are made and marketed by Precision Spools, Inc., and include plastic spools, bobbins, reels, dye tubes, tape cores and covers. Wire and stranded material are thus packaged.
Peter Olsta says, "PPE can decorate your reels with your mark of distinction. Think of the lesson of vodka marketing. Different brands have similar taste, but the decoration on the package and bottle sets them apart."
Despite the wide range of standard spools and reels produced by PPE, the company has been alert to the suggestions of their customers and have developed new designs that perform better.
Tom Walker says, "our two new designs of standard wire reels came from a re-engineering to address the market's concern for flange chipping and breakage. We incorporated an extra row of ribs in the 11.75" x 7" (300 x 180 mm) and added six more ribs to the 8" x 6" (200 x 150 mm) to create a stronger flange in these HIPS (high impact polystyrene) or ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) reel designs. This has been proven to enhance both in-process and shipping reel performance for our customers. Demand has been phenomenal."
A new niche for PPE is the Conduit Repair Kit. Two halves of plastic tubing are cemented to leaking underground cables. A Boston lady's dog wouldn't have had scorched paws when it stepped on a manhole cover that was electrified if the leak had been repaired with such a kit.

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