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The First Snap-Fit Handbook : Creating Attachments for Plastics Parts

by Paul R. Bonenberger (Author)
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
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Organizes and presents all aspects of snap-fit technology of plastic parts, including the minimum requirements for successful snap-fits, details of constraint features, improving snap-fits with enhancements, and more. DLC: Assembly-line methods.
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  1. ISBN-10
    1569902798
  2. ISBN-13
    978-1569902790
  3. Publisher
    Hanser Gardner Pubns
  4. Publication date
    April 30, 2000
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    0.5 x 6.75 x 9.5 inches
  7. Print length
    268 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hanser Gardner Pubns (April 30, 2000)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 268 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1569902798
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1569902790
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.5 x 6.75 x 9.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 6 ratings

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3.6 out of 5 stars
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Marko Hannuniemi
3.0 out of 5 stars Too much self-evident things
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2004
First I must say that this book is not for snap-fit calculation, it is about snap-fir consepts. So it helps a lot in designing snap-fit as a whole (locators, guides etc). Not so helpful if you just have to design and calculate special snap-fit feature.

Good book for beginners but it repeats too much too simple things -> too much "fluffy" pages, less pages would be better better

I would give 3 stars. This obviusly is not 5 star book, altough I would recommend this book if you are going to design more than one snap fitting.
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P. R. Bonenberger
5.0 out of 5 stars Author Clarifies
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2005
Potential readers should take advantage of this site's feature that lets you review this book's Table of Contents and Introduction. As is clearly explained in the "Introduction" and "Reader Expectations" Sections, this book is not just about equations for snap feature behavior. There are indeed many sources for feature behavior calculations; some are provided in the book. This book is useful if you want to understand a snap-fit attachment as a system in order to avoid many common errors. Many of these errors are trivial, but they are repeated again and again in all kinds of plastic products. My personal experience is that the root causes of most snap-fit attachment problems are neither prevented nor resolved by simply calculating feature behavior and a 'systems' approach is essential. To post this message, I must rate my own book; this is not an attempt to bias the ratings.
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John Socha-Leialoha
2.0 out of 5 stars Too wordy and academic
Reviewed in the United States on October 19, 2005
I agree with the other people who said this book repeats itself. It could have been about 1/5th the length and still contained the same amount of information. He spends a lot of time on definitions instead of practical information. After purchasing his book, I found some free snap-fit design guides on the internet that I found much more useful.
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Arthur Hess
5.0 out of 5 stars Great plastic snap-fit design guideline
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2000
This book is a very good reference for designing plastic snap-fit features. It discusses snap fit mechanisms, locators, locating schemes and overconstraints, design-for-assembly, and the snap-fit function from the end user point-of-view. It includes formula for calculating all of the important functions I wanted to predict in a design. It goes through a logical design sequence to create a snap-fit design that works in your particular application and identifies what you should and should NOT do. Some things were trivial for plastic design, others were not obvious and had not occurred to the design teams in which I have participated.
After reading this book I immediately recognized poor snap-fit designs on products I have worked with for years. A mechanical analysis of an optimized snap-fit based on this book showed how these concepts would have helped tremendously in the initial product design phase. I will certainly use this book in all my future snap-fit designs.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The pratical methodology for snap-fit mechanism design
Reviewed in the United States on May 20, 2001
Unlike most of the design reference book, this one gives design engineers very good logical ways, i.e. design methodology, for snap-fit mechanism design. It will avoid the mistakes a young engineer might make, and the writer also provides several very good examples to guide experienced engineers' creativity.
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