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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. ...
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Storage & Elastomer Shelf Life of Compounds
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Storage life varies with resistance of each synthetic elastomer to normal storage conditions. Use this reference chart as a guideline as to how long an O-ring can be stored. ...
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What to Wear?
From: GGBDescription: Bearings design has sometimes led and sometimes reacted to changes in technology. One thing that hasn't changed is that wear on bearings has, and always will be the single biggest problem the ...
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Solid Bond
From: Nelson Fastener SystemsDescription: How to properly specify weld studs for steelwise use with the drawn arc stud welding process in structural applications. ...
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Ball Screws and Nuts Glossary
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: A comprehensive load calculation that accounts for multiple force components. Included in these components are: weight of the sliding mechanism (vertical), weight of the sliding mechanism multiplied ...
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Machine Screws and Nuts Glossary
From: Joyce/Dayton Corp.Description: A load that is parallel to the centerline of the screw shaft and equally distributed around the mounting surface. It is the recommended method of attaching the load to the nut. ...
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Using Polymeric Rotary Shaft Seals? How to Plan for a Successful Project
From: Woodex MECO IndustriesDescription: There are often misconceptions surrounding the availability of contacting, polymeric rotary shaft seals. Much of this misunderstanding comes from assumptions made by comparing contacting, polymeric ...
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Reducing Waste and Improving Efficiency in the Aluminum Industry
Description: A persistent problem faced while aluminum reduction cells are sealed is creating and maintaining a hermetic seal for the entire service life of the reduction cell where the cathode bars penetrate the ...
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What is a Spacer?
From: bisco industriesDescription: Spacers are unthreaded cylindrical fasteners fabricated from a variety of materials including brass, stainless steel, and nylon. Similar to standoffs, spacers differ in that they are unthreaded. ...
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What is a Standoff?
From: bisco industriesDescription: Standoffs are fasteners used to create space between printed circuit board (PCB) assemblies and are the standard fastener for mounting PCBs to prevent electrical shorts. Standoffs are similar to ...
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Metal Alloy Bearings Keep Steel Cooling Beds Rolling
From: GGBDescription: A major Scandinavian steel producer with global operations recently installed the first section of a new roller cooling bed, for which it turned to GGB Bearing Technology for a bearing solution. ...
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Auto Industry Trends
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Auto Industry Trends As a leading supplier of automotive industry applications for seals, retaining rings, bushings, and protective caps, we're constantly exploring the fast paced auto industry and ...
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PPE Elastomer Sealing Solutions for Fugitive Emissions
Description: There is a great future for elastomer sealing solutions with a particular emphasis on fugitive emissions for valves and how more advanced materials will be able to reduce these emissions due to a ...
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The Benefits of X-Ray and Metal Detectable Seals
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Sanitary gaskets and o-rings are integral parts used across numerous industries. They help to create tight connections, and to seal off systems to ensure that nothing goes in or out. This helps to ...
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The Newest Innovation in Wind Energy: The Dutch Windwheel
From: Daemar Inc.Description: It's been a question long asked by professionals in the energy sector; how can we make wind power a more attractive alternative? The potential of green or sustainable energy is considerable and the ...
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The Use of Caps and Plugs for the Oil and Gas Industries
From: Daemar Inc.Description: Everyone thinks of the oil and gas industries as rough and tough jobs - and much of it is. However, some of the equipment used in these jobs can be sensitive ...
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Classes of Thread
Description: Classes of thread fit is one of three factors one must consider when deciding what type of thread is best for a given fastener application. The other 2 are thread form and thread series. We will ...
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Screw and Thread Terms
Description: Can you explain some basic screw and thread terms? ...
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Stainless Steel Corrosion
Description: I have been using hardware made of 303 stainless steel and when exposed to a salt atmosphere, the parts begin to rust. I need to stay with stainless material. Is there another type of stainless steel ...
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Thread Galling
Description: I have some fasteners that have mating threads, internal and external. Often, I have a problem loosening and separating the parts. Why is this happening, and how can it be avoided? ...
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Thread Series
Description: What are the pros and cons of selecting a "coarse" vs "fine" thread for a fastener? ...
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Tin Whiskers
Description: Recently we had a problem with a plated product, and I overheard someone in Quality Control talking about "tin whiskers". What are "tin whiskers", and what can I do about this? ...
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What is a Welded Metal Bellows?
Description: Welded metal bellows are suitable for extreme temperatures and corrosive environments. ...
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What is RoHS?
Description: What is RoHS? RoHS, lead-free legislation, also known as the "European Directive 2002/95/EC on the Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment", will ...
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Working with Countersinks
Description: I want to use your threaded standoff, Part Number 12040RSS???-12 for a panel thickness of 10 GA sheet steel. I don't want to swage it, and after flaring, the shank must be flush to under-flush. How do ...
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SKF Magnetic Bearings Equip the First Ever Subsea Gas Compression System at the Statoil-operated Åsgard Gas Field
From: SKF/North AmericaDescription: Gothenburg, Sweden, 10 November, 2015: SKF has supplied magnetic bearings for use in the world’s first subsea gas compression system at the Ã...sgard gas field off the Norwegian coast. As part ...
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SKF's Intelligent Bearing Technology is Deployed in a New Project to Monitor Axle Bearings Wirelessly
From: SKF/North AmericaDescription: Gothenburg, Sweden, 13 April, 2015: SKF has recently in cooperation with SJ, the Swedish national rail operator, started to run SKF Insight on a railway vehicle. This pilot will demonstrate the ...
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When Should Oil Be Used For Bearings?
Description: Bearing lubrication methods are typically provided by either an oil or grease. Each lubrication method has specific cases where its use is preferred. Sean P. Kelly, Field Applications Engineer for NMB ...
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Benefits of Guide Roller Technology
Description: Modern Linear products incorporate the benefits of guide roller technology. Guide roller benefits are numerous compared to competing technologies. They are smooth, fast, quiet, and extremely durable. ...
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4 Important Aspects of Picking a Fastener
From: Ford Fasteners, Inc.Description: Fasteners are in virtually every industry, application and even most products. Manufacturers are forced to decide which fastener might be best for their specific product. If they do not make the right ...
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Getting to Know Self-Tapping Screws
From: Ford Fasteners, Inc.Description: Stainless steel screws come in many different shapes and sizes, one type of screw is the self-tapping screw. These screws are designed in a way where their threading allows them to be placed into a ...
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Retaining Ring Selection Guide
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley engineers have seen and heard it all when it comes to retaining rings, so who better to ask about the best ring for your application than the experts themselves. From materials, to size, ...
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Spirolox Retaining Ring Installation and Removal Guide
From: SmalleyDescription: Spirolox retaining rings are used to serve as a removable shoulder within an assembly. These rings not only work to retain components in an assembly when installed in a groove, they are also designed ...
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Understanding the Form, Fit, and Function of Retaining Rings
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley retaining rings eliminate the protruding ears that can interfere with the assembly while providing a 360-degree retaining surface. Their unique design means no special tools are required. ...
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Wave Springs Save Your Assembly Space and Weight
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley wave springs offer the unique advantage of space savings when used to replace coil springs. ...
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Ask the Expert - Available Deflection in Single Turn Wave Springs and Retaining Ring Gap Sizes
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 wave spring available deflection ...
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Ask the Expert - Gap Type Performance and Crest-to-Crest Design Specifications
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert blog, the blog is designed to help educate you on all things rings and wave springs. This week, the expert fields some questions about the performance of gap type ...
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Ask the Expert - Groove Geometry and Ring Failure
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 groove geometry and dimensions. ...
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Ask the Expert - Installing Retaining Rings and Laminar Seal Ring Application
From: SmalleyDescription: Unlike salespeople, Sales Engineers are engineers first. Smalley Sales Engineers use their technical expertise to steer you in the direction of the products that will best suit your needs instead of ...
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Ask the Expert - Part Number Issues and Spirolox Retaining Ring Reusability
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 Spirolox retaining rings, ...
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Ask the Expert - Retaining Ring Gaps and Performance in High RPM Applications
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert Blog. This week, our experts answer some questions about retaining ring gaps and improving the performance of a retaining ring in a high RPM application. ...
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Ask the Expert - Retaining Ring Material and Shear Load Safety Factors
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 retaining rings. Specifically, ...
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Ask the Expert - Small Wave Springs and Seal Rings
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 different uses of Smalley springs ...
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Ask the Expert - Tools for Retaining Ring Installation and Removal
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 a question about tools for the installation and ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Spring Compression and Deflection
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 the performance characteristics ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Spring Cycle Life and Material
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert blog, the blog is designed to help educate you on all things rings and wave springs. This week, the expert fields some questions on the cycle life of wave springs ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Spring Design
From: SmalleyDescription: Welcome back to the Ask the Expert blog, the blog is designed to help educate you on all things rings and wave springs. This week, the expert fields some questions about design specifics of wave ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Spring Substitution, Compression and Performance
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 wave spring substitutions, wave ...
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Ask the Expert - Wave Spring Tolerance and Load
From: SmalleyDescription: Sales Engineers are different from salespeople in that a Sales Engineer is an engineer first. A salesperson might try to steer you toward the most expensive option, regardless of your needs. A Sales ...
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Designing with Smalley Wave Springs
From: SmalleyDescription: Smalley Wave Springs are a series of flat wire compression springs offering numerous functional advantages over traditional coil or compression springs. While providing the same force and deflection ...
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Smalley Applications - Athletic Shoes and Wave Springs
From: SmalleyDescription: When examining potential uses for Smalley's versatile wave springs, usually Aerospace, Automotive and Medical applications come to mind. Granted there are probably thousands of designs where wave ...
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Wave Spring Application Infographic
From: SmalleyDescription: Wave springs feature an innovative design that can replace traditional coil springs. ...
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Comparing Bearings and Bearing Life
Description: Comparing bearings life and other specifications. ...
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How to Ensure Bolted Joint Integrity When Using a Compression Limiter in a Plastic Assembly
From: SPIROLDescription: Compression Limiters are used to protect plastic components in bolted joints and maintain a threaded fastener's clamp load by eliminating plastic creep. To function properly, bearing surface beneath ...
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The Advantages of Using Edge Bonded Shims
From: SPIROLDescription: Precision Shims are used as compensators to absorb tolerances between mating components. They significantly reduce manufacturing costs by eliminating the need for each component to be precision ...
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Basic Rules for Selecting and Handling of Bearings
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: The efficiency of thin type bearings can be greatly affected by the precision of shaft and housing seats. The accuracy of the surrounding structure must be such that it will not adversely affect the ...
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Damage, Cause, Remedy
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: Incorrect handling of a bearing can cause damage and shorten the life. The following shows typical causes and suggested remedies. ...
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Fitting of Bearings
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: A bearing can only perform to its full capacity when it is correctly fitted on the shaft and in the housing. Insufficient interference on fitting surfaces could cause bearing rings to creep in a ...
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Internal Clearance
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: Internal clearance is the play between outer ring, inner ring and rolling element. Generally, the amount of up and down movement of the outer ring with respect to the fixed inner ring is called the ...
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Problem, Cause, Remedy
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: Problems, causes, and remedies for common noise issues. ...
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Bolt Threads
Description: It might be unusual to think of bolts and nuts as cutting-edge technology, but for at least 1,800 years these fasteners were nothing less. Until the Industrial Revolution, the six classical machines ...
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How Air Bearings Work: Example of 3-Motor Planar Stage
From: Nelson Air, a PI CompanyDescription: Video: how air bearings work. ...
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Top 7 Air Bearing Myths
From: Nelson Air, a PI CompanyDescription: The top 7 air bearing myths. ...
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When to Use Air Bearings and Mechanical Bearings
From: Nelson Air, a PI CompanyDescription: 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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3 Simple Steps to Getting a Custom Contact Pin
From: Bead ElectronicsDescription: Getting a custom contact pin shouldn't be a difficult process. It requires a few simple steps that involve a bit of research, some organization, and the right supplier. Here are some tips to guide you ...
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How To Customize a Standard Contact Pin Without Blowing Your Budget
From: Bead ElectronicsDescription: Just like "cozy" can seem like a synonym for "small" (especially when it comes to real estate), the word "custom" can sometimes be synonymous with "expensive". In the electronics manufacturing ...
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How to Ensure Quality of Tubular Contact Pins, Post-Plating
From: Bead ElectronicsDescription: Bead Electronics has several vision inspection cameras throughout the factory that we use to inspect our solid wire and tubular contact pins as they are produced. But occasionally, certain parts can ...
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Control Technologies Protect Bridges, Infrastructure Globally
From: Enidine Inc.Description: With earthquakes an ever-present threat in many highly-populated areas of the world, today's bridges and infrastructure require technologies that will help enhance their durability and survivability. ...
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Increase uptime by controlling energy and vibration
From: Enidine Inc.Description: Energy absorption products, such as shock absorbers and vibration isolators, can help maintain speed and throughput while keeping linear motion processes online with less downtime. ...
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Catamaran Dual Tiller/Rudder
From: GGBDescription: GGB EP™ injection-molded bearings provide Hobie Cat 16 with superior wear resistance and low friction over a wide range of conditions. ...
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Centrifuge Manufacturer Relies on GGB Metallic Bearings
From: GGBDescription: Ferrum AG, Rupperswil, Switzerland, manufactures centrifuges for separating solids from liquids in a wide range of industrial processes, such as extracting de-icing and table salt from concentrated ...
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CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF BEARING MATERIALS
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF BEARING MATERIALS ...
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Frictional Torque & Temperature
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: Frictional torque of rolling bearings varies under changing load and lubrication conditions. When grease is used as a lubricant, the grease resistance must be added to the bearing frictional torque. ...
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Gateshead Millennium Bridge: Main Pivots
From: GGBDescription: The first bridge to pivot on four self-aligning bearings, the Gateshead Millennium Bridge has both a fixed and a floating bearing found on either side of the river. DB™ maintenance-free bearings ...
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Innovative Hydro Bearings Help Keep Panama Canal Cleaner
From: GGBDescription: GGB Bearing Technology recently developed a new type of pintle bearing for refurbishment of the miter gates in the Panama Canal's lock system. ...
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Life & Load Rating
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: When bearings rotate, the inner and outer rings and rolling elements are constantly loaded. This produces material fatigue and eventually bearing failure. The total number of revolutions before a ...
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Maximum Permissible Bearing Speed
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: Each bearing type has its own limiting speed. The theoretical speed that bearings can run at safely, even if heat generation by internal friction occurs, is called the maximum permissible speed. ...
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Tolerance, Class, Chamfer Dimension of Bearings
From: EZO SPB-USA, LLCDescription: Tolerance, Class, Chamfer Dimension of Bearings ...
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Caster Lexicon: A Glossary of Terms
From: RWM Casters CompanyDescription: At RWM, we believe in being both thorough and accessible. Listed and defined below are common terms used to describe and specify casters and wheels for your convenience. ...
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Hands On At The U.S. National Whitewater Center
From: RWM Casters CompanyDescription: Last Friday, our Marketing team accompanied a delivery of two custom racks to the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. The U.S. National Whitewater Center is a non-profit ...
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Swivel Lead: Long vs. Short
From: RWM Casters CompanyDescription: The caster industry caters to a multitude of various industrial applications including many demanding ones such as automotive towlines, heavy duty assembly, tooling equipment and expensive tool & die ...
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Applications--Cycle Lock
From: TFC Ltd.Description: By utilising the total flexibility of the Smalley manufacturing process, it was possible to easily and inexpensively design a special 2-turn internal retaining ring for this tamper proof application. ...
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Bearing Pre-Load
From: TFC Ltd.Description: One of the most common wave spring applications world-wide is a bearing pre-load arrangement as illustrated. Having the proper load will often extend bearing life by lowering operating temperatures, ...