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The nuts and bolts of ceramic fasteners
Few fasteners can beat threaded ceramics nuts and bolts when it comes to withstanding heat, pressure, and corrosive environments. Just don't torque them too tight. A wide variety of ceramic nuts, bolts, and washers can be made out of alumina or zirconia. Green or unfired bolts are longer than
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"Pistachio Blaster" Finds Perfect Nuts
When a pistachio is ripened perfectly, its light-tan shell splits open, revealing a rich-tasting, lime-green kernel that's ready to roast and enjoy. This handy split-shell feature makes it easy for you to loosen the plump nut from its protective housing. Nicknamed "laughing pistachios" because
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Plastic Nuts become a hot topic
difficult to process. Vespel cannot be injection molded and is instead direct formed or compression molded. Here, powdered material is compressed into a "green" compact and heated to form net-shape parts or rods from which parts can be machined by traditional methods. Torlon is also compression moldable
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Green Theme for 2009 Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show
Green is still a popular color, particularly at industry events in the Anaheim Convention Center in California Feb. 10 to 12. These events include the Pacific Design & Manufacturing Show, MD&M West, West Pack, Electronics West, Plastec Pavilion West, Automation Technology Expo, Green Manufacturing
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Learn the Basics of Torque Wrenches
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Cylindrical Reversible Design
to permit this, it is not possible to distinguish between the Go an NoGo members without resorting to measuring instruments. The collet nuts at the ends of the handle are different colors - green for Go and red for NoGo. This traffic light system is often used in attribute gaging. Design Tech Facts
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Therapeutic Dose: Courting Biotech
s largest indoor field of corn somehow grew tall and green. BIO s plenary speakers focused on biotechnology as a force for good. People s interdependence is the dominant feature of the modern world, said President Clinton in his address. We have to spend the next few decades [moving] toward a more
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Letters 8/6/2009
than indirectly criticized. If you want to get 30 mpg, then don’t buy a vehicle the size of a bus. And if you want 50 mpg or more, press the politicians to dispense with the games and create policies that promote clean diesel and diesel hybrids. Diesel is far more “green” than most options