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How to Improve Product Design and Manufacturability with the Coiled Pin
From: SPIROLDescription: In any assembled component there are three ways to reduce the overall cost of the assembly: reduce the cost of the individual components, reduce component preparation cost, and reduce the cost to ...
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Measurement Techniques for the Inspection of Series 550 Coiled Pins for Cosmetic Cases
From: SPIROLDescription: White paper focusing on step-by-step design specifics of a coiled pin and everyday uses. ...
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Proportional Solenoids: Technical Overview
From: GEEPLUS Inc.Description: Proportional Solenoids are linear actuators with a force proportional to the current in a limited range. With the addition of a return spring in your application you can make the proportional solenoid ...
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Coiled Spring Pins Offer a Unique Balance of Strength and Flexibility
From: SPIROLDescription: Easily recognized by its unique 2¼ coil cross section, Coiled Pins are retained by radial tension when installed into the host component, and they are the only pins with uniform strength and ...
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How to Design Assemblies That Use Coiled Pins for Locating and Alignment
From: SPIROLDescription: To achieve optimal alignment when using Coiled Pins, two primary design elements must be adhered to: 1) The hole diameters in the host and mating component must be correctly sized to achieve the ...
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How to Select the Proper Diameter and Duty of a Coiled Spring Pin
From: SPIROLDescription: This White Paper provides the fundamental guidelines for determining the optimum balance between strength and flexibility of the Coiled Spring Pin that will result in the prolonged net life of the ...
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The Advantages of Using Light Duty Coiled Pins Versus Slotted Pins in Soft Materials
From: SPIROLDescription: This paper compares and contrasts the use of various types of spring pins used in soft host materials, and provides valuable information regarding the optimum solution for plastic assemblies. ...
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The Impact of Clearance on the Shear Properties of Coiled Spring Pins
From: SPIROLDescription: This White Paper quantifies the effects that clearance between the shear plane has on the strength of a pinned joint. ...
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Connector Sleeves & Paraffin Petroleum Grout Can Work Together
Description: Discussing the challenges of paraffin petroleum grout with existing rubber connector sleeve, action taken, and example of company reaching out to Aero Rubber Company for help in regards to this issue. ...
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How to Choose O-Ring Material for Your Fluid Sealing Applications
Description: Once installed, O-rings make sure that no liquid or air sweep through the designated area. Since O-rings are crucial to perform effectively after being installed, selecting the right O-ring material ...
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Troubleshooting O-Ring Failures
Description: Like any device subjected to errors in installation or exposure to high stresses, O-rings too are liable to failure. Different materials of O-rings have different shelf lives. Shelf life for materials ...
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Testing of HFC Fluids on Common Seal Materials in High Temperature Applications
Description: Introduction As the oil and gas industry moves to recover more challenging reserves and enters the development of High Pressure High Temperature (HPHT) fields, the risk of fire is ever present. ...
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Conversion Table / Millimeters to Decimal Inches
From: RAF Electronic HardwareDescription: DECIMAL EQUIVALENTS METRIC CONVERSIONS ...
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Installation Information for Captive Panel Retainers
From: RAF Electronic HardwareDescription: INSTALLATION CAPTIVE PANEL RETAINERS ...
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Installation Information Swage Standoffs
From: RAF Electronic HardwareDescription: ILLUSTRATION OF THE SWAGING PROCESS ...
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Table of Properties for Non-Metallic Materials
From: RAF Electronic HardwareDescription: PROPERTIES NON-METALLIC MATERIALS ...
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Rumco: Empowering Innovation, Engineering Value
Description: Rumco Fastener is a leader in the manufacture of cold headed products and specializes in a variety of SEMS and custom fastener products. Imagine that your company has ordered screws from an overseas ...
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Hi-Performance Fastening Systems' MAThread® Option Brings Level of Ease to Any Application
Description: Hi-Performance Fastening Systems manufactures specialty and proprietary cold-headed fasteners serving the distribution, heavy truck, tiered automotive, agriculture, lawn and garden, appliance, ...
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Spring Tolerances: An Often Overlooked Design Consideration
Description: It's no secret that springs are typically the last component engineers consider when prototyping a design. This could be because springs are famously reliable, or perhaps because there are so many ...
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Capital Spring and Customer Support: Engineering a Packaging Solution
Description: High-quality extension springs, torsion springs, compression springs, wire forms, fourslide parts and small metal stampings have been manufactured by Capital Spring, an MW Industries Company, since ...
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On the Waterfront with GGB Bearings
From: GGBDescription: Designed to replace a greased bronze bearing in a key chassis component, the GGB solution includes a specially designed fiber reinforced composite bearing and dual-part axial thrust washer made of ...
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SLIC Pin™ Applications Guide
From: Pivot Point, Inc.Description: The SLIC Pin applications guide provides practical examples where SLIC Pin™ technology has been successful in reducing labor, solving fastening challenges, or improving function in an ...
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Translating Metric Units to Inches in O-Rings
Description: O-rings are the most widely-used seals because they are efficient, economical, and can be used in a wide variety of static and dynamic applications. In order to get the most out of an O-ring, it is ...
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Hi-Performance Fastening Systems: More Than Just a Fastener Supplier
Description: Hi-Performance Fastening Systems manufactures specialty and proprietary cold-headed fasteners serving the distribution, heavy truck, tiered automotive, agriculture, lawn and garden, appliance, ...
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Business Jet Customer Needs Speed, Price, and Reliability
Description: New aircraft design calls for maintenance-free accumulators that deliver lowest lifecycle cost. ...
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Deep-sea Conditions Exceeded Old Seals' Capabilities
Description: Senior's engineers put off-shore project back on schedule, averting potential losses in the millions. ...
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Extended Service Life From One Year to Ten
Description: High-performance thermal actuator for aircraft engine manufacturer changes everything. ...
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Fewer Parts, Zero-maintenance, Extreme Conditions
Description: Senior's innovators deliver on an "impossible" spec for wafer handling. ...
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Fire Prevention in the Air
Description: Extreme temperatures challenge commercial engine maker to find better solution to gearbox safety. ...
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Helping Innovators Address EHA Demands
Description: New flight control system meets strict guidelines for maintenance-free reservoir. ...
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High Precision / Low Cost Sampling Pump
Description: Consumable blood analysis device achieves microliter precision while meeting size/cost goals. ...
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Innovation That Goes Beyond
Description: Minimizing lengthy installation delays for mission-critical aircraft component. ...
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Innovative Approach Replaces Piston with Bellows
Description: Industry's first maintenance-free accumulator greatly improves mission-readiness for U.S. Air Force. ...
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No Pre-existing Solution for >650° Temperatures
Description: Senior creates a new benchmark in high-temperature valves for gas turbines. ...
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Pushing the Boundaries of Conventional Engines
Description: Helping to develop the next generation of long-life, ultra-reliable aircraft. ...
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Turbine Seal in High-temp, High-vibration Application
Description: When compromise cannot be tolerated, the Senior team gives you the power. ...
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USA Fastener Brings Industry-Leading Certifications to the Oil and Gas Industries
Description: USA Fastener Group, Inc. (USAFG), serves the industrial and fastener industries with over 400 years of combined sales experience, stable financial backing and a commitment toward continued growth. ...
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Advanced Roller Chains Extend Operating Life in Tough Operating Conditions
Description: Roller chains have long been relied upon to deliver long lasting performance despite demanding applications. New advancements in technology now allow even longer life and higher performance even in ...
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Ask the Expert - How Do I Measure the Free Height of a Wave Spring?
From: SmalleyDescription: It's important to know to how to properly measure a wave spring's free height in order to verify that you are using the correct part for your application. When done correctly, it can also save ...
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Mohawk Spring Proves Partner Expertise is Priceless
Description: For providers of military components, quality is the top priority. When parts don't meet standards, production is delayed, or worse, the device could fail in the field. Complex technology depends on ...
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Bore Design
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Steel and cast iron are typically used for bore housings as they provide a good surface for accepting both metal and rubber O.D. seals. For soft metal, such as Aluminum, a rubber O.D. is recommended. ...
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Design Equipment to Promote Better Seal Performance
From: Daemar Inc.Description: For a seal to optimally operate requires the appropriate design of the two components that the seal interacts with - the Bore and the Shaft. The Bore should have an adequate lead in chamfer and proper ...
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Design of the Shaft
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Proper application design assures proper sealing performance. Using the following guide will ensure the best possible sealing environment. ...
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Extending Seal Life Starts with Proper Selection
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Although not often the most expensive component in a bearing assembly the proper selection of the radial shaft seal can be crucial to ensuring bearing longevity and reducing system maintenance costs ...
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Seal Installation
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Seal installation might seem straightforward but when replacing seals (especially in the field) even the smallest of errors can lead to premature seal failure. Improper seal installation is recognized ...
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3 Keys to a Functional Gasket
Description: Frequent gasket replacement is frustrating and costly in machine downtime. It can leave you wondering if there is something that could be done to improve the gasket. The problem can be as simple as ...
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When Round Wire is NOT the Best
Description: The most common problem in spring design is obtaining as much force as possible in a small area. The area is usually a round cylinder with a minimum inside diameter, the shaft, and a maximum outside ...
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Three Effective Ways to Waterproof Seams
From: Can-Do National TapeDescription: Waterproof Seam Sealing Tape raises the bar in waterproof protection. Whether you're creating outerwear, tents, or other products that need a watertight finish, waterproofing your seams with seam ...
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Thin Section Ball Bearings Sample Applications
From: RBC BearingsDescription: The customer needed a set of bearings that maintained an extreme precise angular accuracy of the center line of the shaft to the housing. The angular accuracy requirement was a non-repeatable error ...
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Thin Section Ball Bearings Tolerance And Fits
From: RBC BearingsDescription: Tolerance tables and recommended fits. ...
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AutomotiveWorld: SKF Destroys 15 Tons of Fake Bearings
From: Alpine Bearing, Inc.Description: SKF has recently completed legal proceedings against a dealer of counterfeit bearings in Greece. Initiated in 2009, a total of 15 tons of counterfeit SKF bearings were seized as part of a raid at a ...
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Machine Design: The Dangers of Fake Bearings
From: Alpine Bearing, Inc.Description: Fake bearings are creating headaches for not only bearing manufacturers around the world, but also for the people conned into buying them. ...
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The Problem with Counterfeit Bearings
From: Alpine Bearing, Inc.Description: Bearings are another story. Bearings have to fit properly and they also have to be the ones we think we're buying. We choose certain brands for a reason ...
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Seal Selection for Valve Design and Retrofitting
Description: Valve seals must be selected to provide enhanced durability and life in the end-use application while meeting increasingly stringent performance criteria in regards to leakage and low emissions. ...
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WHITE PAPER - Air Bearings: When to Use and When to Avoid in Your Motion Application
Description: Most motion applications are perfectly well-served by mechanical bearing guidance; but there are many cases where precision, angular repeatability, and geometric performance must be optimal or where ...
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A Brief History of Fasteners
From: Ford Fasteners, Inc.Description: Fasteners are a tool that quietly dominate our lives. Sometimes simple and sometimes complex, these unsung heroes make our world go round, and have been doing so for thousands of years. If you take a ...
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DFM Strategies Save Time and Money
Description: It is not unusual for top-notch engineering teams to complete the research and development (R&D) phase for their new products, but then find they cannot make the leap into product development (PD). ...
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Streamlined Auto-Injector Designs Can Do Double Duty
Description: One of the best ways of streamlining any manufacturer's costs is to standardize designs. That is particularly true in the pharmaceutical industry, and, in particular, where it concerns auto-injectors. ...
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The Ultimate Guide to Caps and Plugs
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: The Caps and Plugs edition of the Essentials Guide has been created to outline specific protection solutions for your project, in a number of key industrial manufacturing applications. ...
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A Guide to PCB Spacers
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: Selecting the right spacer for your project can be a challenge, so it's essential to consider a number of factors before you commit to purchasing. Luckily, Essentra has over 50 years' experience in ...
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Air Liquide Case Study
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: Air Liquide is a global leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health with a presence in over 80 countries and serving more than two million customers and patients. When the ...
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EAE Case Study
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: EAE Elektroteknik A.S. is a member of the EAE Group which was established in 1995 to manufacture Low Voltage Electrical Enclosures under E-Kabin brand. When EAE faced growing customer demands to ...
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Groupe Atlantic Case Study
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: Groupe Atlantic is a global leader in thermal comfort solutions. When the company needed a custom solution for their new product range, Essentra responded with increased product functionality while ...
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Masking Materials Selection Guide
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: However, mastering this process can be a challenge, particularly in ensuring that your masking solution behaves as required during wet painting, powder coating, e-coating, anodizing, plating, blasting ...
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Vestel Case Study
From: Essentra ComponentsDescription: Vestel is a leading global manufacturer of household and B2B appliances and devices. When responding to a national tender from the Ministry of Education to install Smartboards in schools in Turkey, ...
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Compressed Gasket Material Testing
Description: Phelps Compressed Gasket Materials (our famous green sheet) have been extensively tested for pressure and high temperature performance. In particular, the green sheet has undergone two tests - the DIN ...
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Definition and Applications of Compression Packing
Description: Control of fluid loss is essential to the successful operation of mechanical equipment used in fluid handling. Various methods are utilized to control leakage at shafts, rods, or valve stems and other ...
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How to Install Compression Packing
Description: The importance of packing the pump correctly cannot be overemphasized. Many packing failures are due to incorrect installation of the packing. The following steps have been devised to ensure effective ...
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Trouble-shooting Compression Packing Failures
Description: Packing may fail for a variety of reasons. Beside improper installation, packing failures are often due to worn or faulty equipment, shaft misalignment, uneven take-up on the gland bolts, and other ...
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10 Key Areas To Consider When Evaluating Suppliers
Description: Many medical device manufacturers are realizing the need to push responsibility for certain elements of the process further down the supply chain. Frequently, this can result in project management ...
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Heat Seal Tapes - A New Direction in Apparel Manufacturing
From: Can-Do National TapeDescription: Providing an ideal bonding solution for fabrics, heat seal tapes are offering manufacturers advantages such as high bonding strength, flexibility, durability, and solvent resistance. ...
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Safer and Lighter Adhesive Materials for Automotive Industries
From: Can-Do National TapeDescription: Automobile assemblies today utilize a wide variety of adhesive materials in numerous applications: seats and linings, headers, dashboards, exterior emblems, and more. The effort to lower vehicle ...
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Flexible Heat Bonding Tape Provides Alternative to Sewing
From: Can-Do National TapeDescription: Thermoplastic, Heat Seal and Hot Melt Adhesives are redefining cut and sew solutions for the textile industry. This new technology replaces the need for stitching in a wide range of garments and soft ...
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Ask the Expert - Linear Springs and Laminar Seal Rings Requirements
From: SmalleyDescription: We are back with another Ask the Expert Blog entry. This week, our retaining ring, spring and snap ring experts answer a couple questions about Linear Springs and Laminar Seal Rings. If you have your ...
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Ask the Expert - Snap Ring and Spiral Retaining Ring Installation
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Smalley Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring questions. This week, our engineers answer questions about snap ring and ...
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What is a Threaded Insert?
From: bisco industriesDescription: A threaded insert is a threaded metal cylinder that is inserted into an existing hole to provide a threaded pathway for a fastener such as a screw or bolt ...
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How to Choose the Right Fastener
Description: In the process industries, such as oil, gas, and petrochemicals, the selection of the right fastener in the right application can be critical. The bolts used to connect companion flanges, for example, ...
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Ask the Expert - Corrosion Resistant Plating and Titanium Products
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Smalley Ask the Expert Blog. This week, our engineers answer questions about corrosion resistant plating and titanium retaining rings and wave springs. ...
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Ask the Expert - Hoopster Applications and Stacking Wave Springs
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineering experts answer questions about retaining ring and wave spring design and performance. This week, our engineers answer questions about Hoopster ...
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Ask the Expert - Nested Wave Spring Design and Spirolox Retaining Ring Interchange
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about Spirolox retaining ...
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Ask the Expert - Replacing Snap Rings and Coil Springs
From: SmalleyDescription: We are back this week with another Ask the Expert Blog, where Smalley experts answer difficult questions about retaining ring and wave spring design. This week, our engineering experts answer some ...
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Ask the Expert - Retaining Ring Design and Wave Spring Performance in Extreme Temperatures
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked reataining ring and wave spring design questions. This week, our experts take some questions about retaining ring ...
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Ask the Expert - Retaining Ring Interchange and Stock Material
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked ring and spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about interchangeable retaining rings ...
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Ask the Expert - Ring Alterations, Ring Materials, and Ring Varieties
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where our engineers answer commonly asked ring and spring design questions. This week, our experts field some questions about ring alterations, ring materials, ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Spring Design Modifications
From: SmalleyDescription: We are back this week with another Ask the Expert Blog, where Smalley engineering experts answer difficult questions about retaining ring, snap ring and wave spring design. This week, our engineering ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Washer Replacement and Overlapping vs. Gap Type Wave Springs
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog, where Smalley engineers answer commonly asked retaining ring and wave spring design questions. This week, our engineering experts answer some questions about ...
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Custom Fasteners Made Stronger
From: SmalleyDescription: If you have never heard of edgewound fasteners or are not familiar with the edgewinding process, you might want to keep reading. This little known but very interesting process is not even a topic ...
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Design FAQ Preview - Miniature Wave Spring Configurations
From: SmalleyDescription: The most common wave-spring configurations are single-turn and multiturn "Crest-to-Crest" springs. Single turn springs describe a single circle with a gap or slightly overlapped ends. When compressed ...
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Six Key Design Features
Description: Highly exacting manufacturing techniques and design tolerances are needed to meet the demanding performance specifi cations for these applications. ...
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Replacing Your Plain Metallic Bearings with Plastic
From: igus® inc.Description: While metal may seem like a more durable material than plain old plastic, igus® is proving that misconception false with its iglide® plastic bearings. Learn the truth about plastic and its ...
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Disc Springs
From: Century Spring Corp.Description: A disc spring (sometimes called a "Belleville washer" after the inventor) consists primarily of a convex disc supported at the outer periphery by one force and an opposing force on the center of the ...
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Extension Springs Characteristics
From: Century Spring Corp.Description: Extension springs are designed to resist a pulling force, returning to a tightly wound coil when the force is removed. ...
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Causes of O-Ring Failure
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Like any device subject to judgment in design, or to human error during installation, O-ring seals are liable to failure. ...
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Elastomers Comparison Of Properties
From: Daemar Inc.Description: The chart matches the general rubber properties required in most O-ring applications with the capabilities of commonly used elastomers. Since no one elastomer is rated "excellent" for all properties, ...
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Elastomers for Seals
From: Daemar Inc.Description: (Standard Materials and Specifications) A description and chart of the physical properties(temperature range, colour, hardness range) of the elastomers used in seals and o-rings ...
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Elastomers Temperature and Durometer
From: Daemar Inc.Description: The chart matches the general rubber properties required in most O-ring applications with the capabilities of commonly used elastomers. Since no one elastomer is rated "excellent" for all properties, ...
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Fluid Compatibility Selector
From: Daemar Inc.Description: To achieve optimum sealing performance and to maximize the longevity of the seal it is important to start with the correct elastomer for your particular application. ...
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Material Detection in the Field
From: Daemar Inc.Description: As a result of excessive use, shearing and damage can occur to equipment causing undetectable product contamination. Metal detectables can eliminate product recall, lower product loss and decrease the ...
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O-Ring Groove Design
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Groove design table for o-ring installation. ...
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O-Ring Lubrication
From: Daemar Inc.Description: In all dynamic applications, proper lubrication and good heat dissipation are essential to long seal life and performance. In pneumatic applications, supplemental lubrication should be provided. ...