What a PEEK RFQ needs

Most PEEK quotes come back slow, high or full of assumptions for the same reason: the request left the shop guessing. Ten lines fix that. Use the builder, then paste the result into any supplier email, ours or not.

The ten lines

• 1. The partWhat it is, roughly how big, and what it does in the assembly. A shop quotes a wafer comb differently from a spacer of the same size.
• 2. The gradeUnfilled, GF30, CF30, bearing or implant grade stock. Not sure? Give temperature, load and media and let the shop suggest one. See the property tables.
• 3. Service temperatureContinuous and peak. This is the line that decides whether your fits work hot, and it is missing from most RFQs.
• 4. The features that fitName them and give the tolerance, plus the temperature it applies at. Leave everything else at general tolerance.
• 5. Thin walls and deep boresSay where they are. They decide whether a stress relief cycle is priced in or discovered later.
• 6. Media and contactSteam, solvents, acids, body contact, food contact, with concentration and temperature.
• 7. DocumentsLot certificate, ISO 10993 or USP Class VI data, ASTM F2026 stock, cleanroom packing, CoC. None of these can be added after the parts are cut.
• 8. Who supplies the materialIf you hold approved stock, say the form, size and certificate. It changes the quote structure completely.
• 9. Quantity and dateAsk for two quantities. The gap between them tells you how much of the price is setup.
• 10. The fileSTEP or IGES for geometry plus a PDF with the tolerances marked. A STEP file alone carries no tolerances.

Sourcing elsewhere? Use this anyway. The same ten lines work on a shop you found yourself, and the eight questions in how we vet shops work as a supplier screen.